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UNITED STATES EX REL. LATHAN v. DEEGAN

No. 211, Docket 71-1547.

450 F.2d 181 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Caswell LATHAN, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. John DEEGAN, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, New York, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Lang, New York City (Allan J. Berdon, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Brenda Soloff, Asst. Atty. Gen. of N.Y. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, CLARK, Associate Justice, and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

After more than twelve years of legal maneuvering, Caswell Lathan, Jr. asks this court to reverse the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus based on allegedly involuntary admissions used against him at trial.

Lathan was charged with first degree murder for the July 23, 1959, slaying of Gertrude Stransky. He was tried and convicted in the Bronx County Court before Judge Schulz and a jury.

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