UNITED STATES v. FAY


232 F.Supp. 910 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James KNIGHT, Petitioner, v. Hon. Edward M. FAY, as Warden, Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Knight, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, for respondent, Joel Lewittes, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

The petitioner, now confined to Green Haven State Prison, Stormville, New York, under a sentence of ten to twenty years imposed pursuant to a judgment of conviction of manslaughter entered upon a jury verdict, seeks his release on a writ of habeas corpus. He assails the judgment of conviction as void for violation of his federally protected right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. The nub of his claim is that upon his trial he...

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