BERGIN v. MacDOUGALL

No. 66, Docket 34848.

432 F.2d 935 (1970)

John Franklin BERGIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis I. Parley, West Hartford, Conn., for petitioner-appellant.

John D. LaBelle, State's Atty. for Connecticut (George D. Stoughton, Chief Asst. State's Atty., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before DANAHER, FRIENDLY and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On May 16, 1969, petitioner John Bergin entered a plea of guilty to charges of escape from a penal or correctional institution and was sentenced by the Superior Court for Hartford County to a term of one to five years. He now seeks, by means of federal habeas corpus, to vacate that conviction and to secure his release from prison on the ground that the State of Connecticut deprived him of his constitutional right to a speedy trial. Finding that Connecticut...

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