Defendant pleaded guilty to robbery in the third degree and was sentenced to the New York City Reformatory, a sentence which carries a maximum of three years. Alleging that he was a homosexual and thus was segregated in the City Reformatory and consequently denied access to rehabilitative procedures, defendant sued out a writ of habeas corpus. The court sustained the writ to the extent of referring the matter back to the original court for resentence; whereupon that court...
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