UNITED STATES EX REL. PARIS v. BRIERLEY

Civ. A. No. 70-772.

315 F.Supp. 1392 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Peter PARIS, III v. Joseph R. BRIERLEY, Warden of the Western Pennsylvania Diagnostic Institution at Woods Run, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a/k/a Western Pennsylvania State Prison.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

August 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen N. Brunwasser, Pittsburgh, Pa., for relator.

Joseph Martin Gelman, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, Pa., for respondent.


OPINION

GOURLEY, Senior District Judge:

This is a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by counsel on behalf of relator, an inmate of a State penal institution located within this District. Relator was tried before a jury at No. 229 Q.S., September Sessions, 1967 in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, Pennsylvania, upon an indictment charging him with forcible rape and the "statutory" rape of a minor under the Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872...

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