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UNITED STATES EX REL. GOLDEN v. JOHNSTON

No. 69-Civ. 2985.

311 F.Supp. 147 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Clara GOLDEN, Petitioner, v. W. Cecil JOHNSTON, M. D., Superintendent, Matteawan State Hospital, Beacon, New York, Respondent.

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

January 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clara Golden, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for respondent; Thomas P. Dorsey, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

MEMORANDUM

CROAKE, District Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate of Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, New York, pursuant to an order of retention made by a justice of the New York State Supreme Court, sitting in Dutchess County on March 8, 1968, has applied to this Court for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner alleges that she has been incarcerated illegally for 19 years and that a multitude of applications to obtain her release have been brought in...

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