UNITED STATES EX REL. SPEAKS v. BRIERLEY

Misc. No. 3913.

293 F.Supp. 528 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Heyward SPEAKS v. Joseph R. BRIERLEY, Superintendent.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Barclay Cale, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Samuel T. Swansen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.


OPINION

LUONGO, District Judge.

In this petition for writ of habeas corpus, relator, Heyward Speaks, charges that his constitutional rights were violated by the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in that they denied him due process of law and the equal protection of the laws of Pennsylvania.

Speaks was indicted on 51 bills in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, October Session, 1955, Nos. 938 through 988. Twenty-two of the...

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