UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2758.

233 F.Supp. 563 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Alfred PARKER v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Parker, pro se.

James C. Crumlish, Jr., Dist. Atty., Gordon Gelfond, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding. Petitioner has raised unsuccessfully in the state courts the argument that the denial of counsel at his preliminary hearing, at which he pleaded guilty, was a deprivation of his constitutional right to counsel. See Commonwealth ex rel. Parker v. Myers, 414 Pa. 427, 200 A.2d 770 (1964).

Lack of counsel at a preliminary hearing constitutes a denial of constitutional...

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