UNITED STATES v. FULLAM

Misc. No. 2592.

224 F.Supp. 492 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edward J. KELLY v. Sentencing Judge John P. FULLAM Quarter Sessions Court, Doylestown, Pennsylvania and John D. Shearer, Director, Eastern Correctional Diagnostic and Classification Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Alex Bonavitacola, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Paul A. Beckert, Dist. Atty., Doylestown, Pa., for respondent.


JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

This is a petition by a state prisoner for a writ of habeas corpus. The original do-it-yourself petition was woefully defective as to form, and we appointed counsel to explore the facts and to file an intelligible petition. Thereafter, we directed the filing of answers and also requested the District Attorney of Bucks County to forward to us any available state records. From all of these, we have been able to sort out the various...

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