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UNITED STATES EX REL. GOCKLEY v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2790.

314 F.Supp. 839 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edwin W. GOCKLEY v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 10, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Fiebach, Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

Arthur Ed. Saylor, Reading, Pa., for respondent.

OPINION

LUONGO, District Judge.

Edwin W. Gockley is serving a 10-20 year sentence imposed by the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Berks County (No. 167, March Sessions, 1961) after conviction for the murder in the second degree of one Clement J. Smith. In this petition for writ of habeas corpus, Gockley charges that his constitutional rights were violated in that confessions used at his trial were involuntary and were the fruit of an illegal arrest. Hearings...

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