UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 3161.

252 F.Supp. 918 (1966)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Clarence LOFTON v. David N. MYERS.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 1, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan David Silverman, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., of Philadelphia County, Michael J. Rotko, Asst. Dist. Atty. of Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.


DAVIS, District Judge.

The relator was sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder by a three judge panel of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery of Philadelphia County after he had entered a plea of guilty to murder generally. He now petitions this Court for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, alleging that his constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, the failure to have counsel at his preliminary hearing,...

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