UNITED STATES v. LaVALLEE

Civ. No. 8981.

206 F.Supp. 365 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Anthony SCARNATO, Petitioner, v. J. E. LaVALLEE, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

July 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Scarnato, petitioner, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of New York, Albany, N. Y., Raymond B. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel, for the United States.

Edward S. Silver, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N. Y., William I. Siegel, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel, for respondent.


JAMES T. FOLEY, District Judge.

The petitioner, a state prisoner, filed for a writ of habeas corpus. His handwritten petition, well-written and concise, presented two alleged federal questions not the usual run-of-the-mill type made in the numerous applications for habeas corpus filed by state prisoners in this District. For that reason I issued an Order to Show Cause, as is my practice when substance may be present, to...

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