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SMITH v. SETTLE

Civ. No. 14042-4.

212 F.Supp. 622 (1962)

Joseph Orby SMITH, Jr., Petitioner, v. Dr. R. O. SETTLE, Warden, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, W. D.

November 30, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Orby Smith, Jr., petitioner pro se.

F. Russell Millin, U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for respondent.

BECKER, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which the petitioner, now detained in the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, seeks "release from illegal custody" and other relief.

This proceeding is an incident in a judicial odyssey by a convict on the poorly charted and apparently limitless seas of postconviction review. Those interested in what federal judges do, when not trying or deciding conventional...

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