UNITED STATES EX REL. MILLER v. LaVALLEE

No. 374, Docket 35395.

436 F.2d 875 (1970)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Edward Stanley MILLER and Joseph T. Quinones, Appellees, v. J. E. LaVALLEE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Timm, New York City, for appellees.

Stephen P. Seligman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Before WATERMAN, HAYS and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Petitioners, who are serving lengthy New York prison sentences imposed on January 11, 1963 after they had been, at a joint trial, convicted of having committed robbery in the first degree, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the district court below, Judd, J., which, after an evidentiary hearing, was sustained on the ground that a pretrial viewing of the petitioners by one of the robbery victims "created such a risk of misidentification that the conviction...

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