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HYLAND v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, COM. OF MASS.

Misc. 482.

445 F.2d 867 (1971)

James T. HYLAND, Petitioner, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 15, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Higgins, Waltham, Mass., for petitioner on application for certificate of probable cause and memorandum in support thereof.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

This is an application for a certificate of probable cause, the district court having dismissed, without hearing, defendant Hyland's petition for a writ of habeas corpus upon an opinion by a magistrate, and refused a certificate.

In this case we have reached what we hope is the ultimate limit of nonsense. While confined under a 1961 sentence, defendant, pursuant to a Massachusetts statute, obtained 50 days credit for contributions to...

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