UNITED STATES EX REL. SLOAN v. McMANN

No. 666, Docket 31937.

415 F.2d 275 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Clarence Lee SLOAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Daniel McMANN, Warden, Clinton State Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Norton, New York City, for appellant.

Michael Jaffe, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for appellee.

Before WATERMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges, and BARTELS, District Judge.


HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Clarence Lee Sloan appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant was originally convicted with three codefendants of murder in the first degree. The New York Court of Appeals reversed those convictions. People v. Lane, 10 N.Y.2d 347, 223 N.Y.S.2d 197, 179 N.E.2d 339 (1961). Appellant and one...

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