UNITED STATES v. FOLLETTE

67 Civ. 1972.

274 F.Supp. 180 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Matthew WALKER, Petitioner, v. Hon. Harold W. FOLLETTE, Warden of Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Walker, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of New York, for respondent. Barry Mahoney, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM

BONSAL, District Judge.

Petitioner, presently incarcerated in Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, seeks a writ of habeas corpus claiming that his Federal constitutional rights were violated in the New York courts.

In February 1963 petitioner and a co-defendant, Preston Smith, were tried together before a jury in Suffolk County Court, and on February 19 they were found guilty of rape,...

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