UNITED STATES EX REL. CURTIS v. OTIS

Nos. 70 Civ. 3347, 71 Civ. 321 and 71 Civ. 4069.

344 F.Supp. 728 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Albert CURTIS, Petitioner, v. Hon. Nelson H. OTIS, Acting Warden of Green Haven Prison, Respondent. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Albert CURTIS, Petitioner, v. Hon. John ZELKER, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York, Respondent. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Albert CURTIS, Petitioner, v. Hon. John ZELKER, Warden of Green Haven State Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

April 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Murdock, New York City, for petitioner; J. Peter Coll, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., New York City, by John G. Proudfit and Iris A. Steel, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondents.


LASKER, District Judge.

Albert F. Curtis, a New York State prisoner confined in Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Curtis is serving an indeterminate sentence of twenty years to life, imposed by the New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, following his plea of guilty on October 16, 1963, to the charge of murder in the second degree. At...

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