PEOPLE EX REL. SCHUSTER v. VINCENT


73 Misc.2d 653 (1972)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Roy Schuster, Relator, v. Leon J. Vincent, as Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Dutchess County.

December 15, 1972


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faith A. Seidenberg for relator. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (John Zenir of counsel), for respondent.


JOSEPH F. HAWKINS, J.

This writ of habeas corpus, on petition of relator's counsel, alleges that the relator has been denied due process for, after having been continuously incarcerated for some 41 years, he is entitled to unconditional release.

Convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree in 1931, the relator was then sentenced to a term of 25 years to life. The sad and pathetic history of...

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