UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. KEVE

No. 199.

383 F.Supp. 849 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. William Turner JOHNSON, Jr., Petitioner, v. Paul KEVE, Corrections Commissioner, Warden Raymond Anderson, Respondents.

United States District Court, Delaware.

October 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Allen Paul, Chief Asst. Public Defender, Wilmington, Del., for petitioner.

Francis A. Reardon, Deputy Atty. Gen. for the State of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., for respondents.


OPINION

LAYTON, District Judge.

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Petitioner seeks to be released from a sentence imposed by the Delaware Superior Court, and affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court.1 He claims to have been denied the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,2 as the result of a four year delay between conviction and sentencing...

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