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BUTLER v. PREISER

No. 73 Civ. 2691.

380 F.Supp. 612 (1974)

Peter BUTLER and Charles Culhane, Plaintiffs, v. Peter PREISER, Commissioner of Correctional Services, and Leon Vincent, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants.

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

June 14, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Schwartz, Edward I. Koren, Amherst, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., New York City, for defendants; Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

In the wake of the "tragic experience of Attica,"1 a prison uprising that left 11 guards and 32 inmates dead as well as over 80 people wounded,2 some 65 inmates have been indicted (with more quite possibly to be added) for serious crimes, including murder. A number of inmates and ex-inmates named in the indictments, together with others not named but choosing to participate...

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