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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY

No. 13482.

289 F.2d 846 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Fred STURDIVANT, Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY and The Principal Keeper of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Durkin, Newark, N. J., for appellant.

Brendan T. Byrne, Newark, N. J., (Sanford M. Jaffe, Legal Assistant Prosecutor, Newark, N. J., on the brief), for appellees.

Before KALODNER, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is under sentence of death imposed by the County Court of Essex County, New Jersey, pursuant to his conviction by a jury in that court of the murder of his four and one-half year old stepdaughter. The judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari. State v. Sturdivant, 1959, 31 N.J. 165...

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