UNITED STATES EX REL. PADGETT v. RUSSELL

Civ. A. No. 70-684.

332 F.Supp. 41 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Leroy James PADGETT v. Harry E. RUSSELL, Supt.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy James Padgett, pro se.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., J. Bruce McKissock, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

The petitioner, Leroy Padgett, after a June, 1965 jury trial, was convicted of second degree murder. Post-trial motions were filed and denied, but no appeal was taken. Padgett subsequently filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act alleging only that the trial court erred in allowing the introduction into evidence of a statement obtained in the absence of counsel at a time when representation was...

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