UNITED STATES v. FOLLETTE

No. 68 Civ. 836.

284 F.Supp. 267 (1968)

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

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Piracci pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, New York City, for respondent; Brenda Soloff, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


OPINION

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, now serving a prison term of seven and a half to fifteen years at Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, upon his plea of guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter in the first degree, entered in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County, seeks his release upon a federal writ of habeas corpus. He was indicted for murder in the first degree which, in the event of a conviction, would have permitted...

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