UNITED STATES EX REL. SIEGEL v. LENNOX

No. 71-1763.

460 F.2d 690 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Abraham SIEGEL, Appellant, v. William M. LENNOX, Sheriff of the County of Philadelphia.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanford Shmukler, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

T. Michael Mather, Asst. Dist. Atty., Milton M. Stein, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., James D. Crawford, Deputy Dist. Atty., Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, VAN DUSEN and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.


ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus contends that Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968), requires the granting of the writ because a co-defendant's extrajudicial statement was improperly admitted against appellant in their joint Pennsylvania state trial for cheating by false pretense.

In 1964 and 1965, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania...

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