UNITED STATES v. FOLLETTE

No. 68 Civ. 637.

284 F.Supp. 689 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Ponell JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Harold W. FOLLETTE, Warden of Green Haven State Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 22, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ponell Johnson, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for respondent. Michael H. Rauch, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


OPINION

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, under sentence of two concurrent terms of thirty years to life imposed pursuant to judgments of conviction of murder in the second degree, entered upon a jury verdict in the Supreme Court, New York County, seeks his release upon a federal writ of habeas corpus based upon alleged violation of his constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The basic allegation of deprivation of his constitutional...

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