UNITED STATES EX REL. DeCLARA v. JOHNSON

No. 69-C-867.

302 F.Supp. 233 (1969)

The UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Frank DeCLARA, Petitioner, v. William C. JOHNSON, Matteawan State Hospital, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

August 1, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank DeClara, pro se.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JUDD, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He alleges that he has been declared insane and is a patient in Matteawan State Hospital, Beacon, New York. It appears that he was indicted in 1966 for murder in the first degree by a grand jury in Kings County, but found mentally incompetent to stand trial.

The petition does not contest the constitutionality of the hearing which resulted in his present detention...

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