IN RE THORESEN

Misc. No. 263.

395 F.2d 466 (1968)

In the Matter of William E. THORESEN, III, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Carter, Bangor, Me., John P. Frank, John J. Flynn, Phoenix, Ariz., Eliot Feldman, Los Angeles, Cal., Rudman, Rudman & Carter, Bangor, Me., and Lewis, Roca, Beauchamp & Linton, Phoenix, Ariz., on application for petitioner.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

This is a request for a certificate of probable cause for appeal from an order of the District Court for the District of Maine dismissing an application for a writ of habeas corpus for lack of jurisdiction. A somewhat detailed recitation of facts is called for.

In September 1959, when petitioner was 21 years old, he stole six posters from the Bar Harbor, Maine, terminal of the Canadian National Railway's Nova Scotia ferry. He was apprehended...

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