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NEEDEL v. SCAFATI

Misc. Civ. No. 68-23.

289 F.Supp. 1006 (1968)

Rubin F. NEEDEL, Petitioner, v. Palmer C. SCAFATI, Superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

September 13, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben Goodman, Robert A. Novick, Edgar Rimbold, Mass. Defenders Committee, Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Elliott Richardson, Atty. Gen., James B. Krasnoo, Richard L. Levine, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., for respondent.

OPINION

JULIAN, District Judge.

Rubin F. Needel, a State prisoner, filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking to overturn his 1964 State court convictions for kidnapping and for assault and robbery while armed. Petitioner's sole contention is that he was deprived of the right to a speedy trial guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

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