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MITCHELL v. SCHOONFIELD

Civ. No. 19481.

285 F.Supp. 728 (1968)

Charles Linwood MITCHELL, Leroy Baldwin, Henry Peay, and Earl L. Carey, Jr., Elsbeth Levy Bothe, on behalf of all others similarly situated, Petitioners, v. Hiram SCHOONFIELD, Warden, Baltimore City Jail, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

May 16, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Fisher, Elsbeth Levy Bothe and William H. Zinman, Baltimore, Md., for petitioners.

George L. Russell, Jr., City Sol., and Roger B. Duncan and James B. Murphy, Asst. City Sol., Baltimore, Md., for respondent.

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., and Morton A. Sacks, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for State of Maryland, intervenor.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARVEY, District Judge:

Five individuals have joined in a petition filed in this Court seeking the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus ordering the release of some fifty persons presently confined in the Baltimore City Jail. Petitioners Mitchell, Baldwin and Peay are themselves serving sentences in such Jail. Petitioners Carey and Bothe are attorneys and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union who are applying as "next...

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