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UNITED STATES EX REL. PUGACH v. MANCUSI

No. 505, Docket 33345.

411 F.2d 177 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Burton N. PUGACH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Hon. Vincent R. MANCUSI, Warden, Attica State Prison, Attica, New York, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton N. Pugach, appellant pro se, submitted brief.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York (Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Brenda Soloff, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), submitted brief for respondent-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, KAUFMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Pugach, a lawyer, was indicted in 1959 by a New York grand jury for a number of crimes arising out of an alleged conspiracy whereby, using Al Smith Newkirk as an intermediary, he hired Heard Harden and Walter McMillian to maim his former girl friend, Linda Riss, by hurling lye in her face. McMillian and Newkirk pleaded guilty. Pugach and Harden stood trial and were convicted. Pugach was sentenced in 1962 for an aggregate of 15 to...

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