UNITED STATES EX REL. PUGACH v. MANCUSI

Nos. 67 Civ. 4844, 68 Civs. 2177, 3948, 69 Civs. 3633, 3634, 3635.

310 F.Supp. 691 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Burton N. PUGACH, Petitioner, v. Hon. Vincent R. MANCUSI, Warden, Attica State Prison, Respondent. Burton N. PUGACH, Plaintiff, v. Paul K. McGINNIS, Commissioner of Correction of the State of New York, and Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden of Attica State Prison, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton N. Pugach, pro se, petitioner.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of New York, New York City, for respondent, by Joel Lewittes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and David S. Blatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bronx County, of counsel.


OPINION

POLLACK, District Judge.

Federal habeas corpus is sought herein by a state prisoner. These proceedings are the culmination of an "almost unparalleled succession of collateral attacks [by him] on his conviction both in state and federal courts".1

The matter came before this Court following a decision of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversing the denial...

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