UNITED STATES EX REL. SAMMARCO v. LaVALLEE

68 Civ. 3087.

305 F.Supp. 759 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Louis SAMMARCO, Petitioner, v. J. E. LaVALLEE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Sammarco, petitioner pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of New York, New York City, for respondent, Lillian Z. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


McGOHEY, District Judge.

The relator appearing pro se seeks a writ of habeas corpus to secure release from Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, where he is serving a sentence of from forty years to life for the crime of second degree murder of which he was convicted by a jury in the former County Court of Bronx County.1 The sentence was imposed on May 14, 1958, and a notice of appeal was timely filed. Since then, however, despite a long...

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