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UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2857.

240 F.Supp. 39 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George Lee RIVERS v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Shapiro, Herman I. Pollock, Vincent J. Ziccardi and Julian B. P. Brereton, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Joseph M. Smith, John F. Hassett, Asst. Dist. Attys., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

This Petition For A Writ of Habeas Corpus asks the court for relief from a finding of murder in the first degree and a sentence of death imposed by a three-judge Pennsylvania court in June 1957, after a plea of guilty to murder generally (p. 1a of R-5), and reimposed by such a court in October 1959. The background of this case is set forth in the previous opinion of this court (and in the previous...

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