UNITED STATES v. LaVALLEE

No. 684, Docket 33369.

426 F.2d 232 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Lawrence DENMARK, Relator-Appellant, v. Honorable J. Edwin LaVALLEE, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Elliot Wales, New York City, for relator-appellant.

Joel Lewittes, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges, and ZAMPANO, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Lawrence Denmark was convicted in 1957 in the New York Court of General Sessions of felony murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He unsuccessfully claimed in the state courts, both on appeal, and in coram nobis, 19 A.D.2d 591, 240 N.Y.S.2d 930 (1st Dept. 1963); 6 A.D.2d 687, 174 N.Y.S.2d 945 (1st Dept. 1958), 8 N.Y.2d 949, 204 N.Y.S.2d 180, 168 N...

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