CISNEROS v. CAVELL

No. 18284.

437 F.2d 1202 (1971)

Alfred J. CISNEROS, Appellant, v. A. C. CAVELL, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred J. Cisneros, pro se.

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., David W. Rutstein, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for appellee.

Before KALODNER, FREEDMAN and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

A Pennsylvania court confiscated as contraband under state law $505.00 found in plaintiff's possession when he was apprehended forty minutes after he had escaped from a Pennsylvania prison. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed, Com. v. Cisneros, 213 Pa.Super. 746, 246 A.2d 895 (1968), and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied allocatur.

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