UNITED STATES EX REL. WILLIAMS v. LaVALLEE

No. 623, Docket 33160.

415 F.2d 643 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Leroy WILLIAMS, Relator-Appellant, v. J. Edwin LaVALLEE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Daly, New York City, for relator-appellant.

Arlene R. Silverman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., of N. Y., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., for respondent-appellee.

Before WATERMAN, FRIENDLY and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

At approximately 2:20 A. M. on May 5, 1966, armed Negro bandits robbed the Western Union office on Hunts Point Avenue in the Bronx, New York. Several minutes later, two New York City police officers, Patrolman Francis Murphy and Sergeant Frank Basile, cruising in a police radio car in the precinct adjacent to the one in which the robbery occurred, heard an alarm broadcast informing of the holdup. A second broadcast shortly followed in which...

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