UNITED STATES v. VITEK

No. 16418.

395 F.2d 478 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Larry RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joseph C. VITEK, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Pontiac, Illinois, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 21, 1968


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard T. Savage, Sydney E. Foster, Ronald M. DeHaan, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

William G. Clark, Robert F. Nix, Chicago, Ill., John J. O'Toole, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for appellee.

Before MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge, and KILEY and FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judges.


KILEY, Circuit Judge.

The district court for the Southern District of Illinois dismissed, without a hearing, appellant Larry Richardson's petition for habeas corpus, and he has appealed. We affirm.

Richardson was arrested at his home in the early morning of August 14, 1961, in connection with the investigation of the robbing and fatal beating of a man on a Chicago street shortly after midnight on August 12. Richardson was then fifteen years old and in the...

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