BALDWIN v. LEWIS

No. 17868.

442 F.2d 29 (1971)

Richard Lee BALDWIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Andrew LEWIS, Acting Superintendent of Milwaukee County Detention Home, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

April 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Warren, Atty. Gen., William A. Platz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., E. Michael McCann, Dist. Atty., Milwaukee County, Bruce C. O'Neill, Jon Peter Genrich, Asst. Dist. Attys., Milwaukee, Wis., for respondent-appellant.

Robert H. Friebert, Milwaukee, Wis., for petitioner-appellee.

Before MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and PELL, Circuit Judges.


PELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court releasing, on a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner, then age 17, to the custody of his mother pending further disposition of delinquency proceedings in the Milwaukee County Children's Court. The petitioner had been in the custody of the respondent at the Milwaukee County Detention Home.

The factual background of the case here involved is set forth correctly and in detail in the district...

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