UNITED STATES v. DENNO


234 F.Supp. 692 (1964)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Robert J. MURPHY, Relator, v. Hon. Wilfred L. DENNO, Warden, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Murphy, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, New York City, for respondent; Lillian Z. Cohen, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, serving a sentence of twenty years to life at Sing Sing Prison, entered upon his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree in the County Court, Kings County, State of New York, seeks his release by a Federal writ of habeas corpus, the third such application.

Early in 1958 petitioner filed his second application in this Court, charging that he had been denied the effective aid of competent counsel based upon allegations...

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