UNITED STATES v. FOLLETTE

No. 68 Civil 4737.

298 F.Supp. 925 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Melville R. ANDERSON, Petitioner, v. Hon. Harold W. FOLLETTE, Warden of Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

April 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melville R. Anderson, pro se.

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


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks his release upon a writ of habeas corpus. He is currently confined at the Green Haven state prison at Stormville, New York, where he is serving concurrent sentences of ten to twenty years for robbery and twenty years to life for kidnapping. The Appellate Division affirmed the conviction without opinion,1 and the Court of Appeals denied leave to appeal. Petitioner charges...

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