UNITED STATES v. LaVALLEE

Civ. No. 9576.

224 F.Supp. 661 (1963)

UNITED STATES ex rel. William WALKER, Relator, v. Hon. J. Edwin LaVALLEE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

December 26, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Berman, New York City, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. State of New York, Albany, N. Y., Joseph J. Rose, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel, for relator.

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


JAMES T. FOLEY, Chief Judge.

This petition presents — after more than ten years have passed since the date of conviction and considerable appellate review been had — the serious challenge by a state prisoner that a coerced confession was used against him during his state trial held in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953. The petitioner filed a similar application for federal habeas corpus with me in 1961 which I...

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