VELEZ v. MARTINEZ

No. 74-1352.

510 F.2d 605 (1975)

Isidro Prieto VELEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Tomas Concepcion MARTINEZ, Warden, etc., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Santos P. Amadeo and Jose Enrique Amadeo, Rio Piedras, P. R., on brief for appellant.

Miriam Naveira de Rodon, Sol. Gen., and Hector R. Orlandi-Gomez, Asst. Sol. Gen., San Juan, P. R., on brief for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, and ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is, hopefully, the nadir of frivolous petitions for habeas corpus. Petitioner is a Puerto Rican prisoner serving a life term for murder as a result of a conviction in the Puerto Rico court in 1962. During the trial a juror at the request of defendant's counsel and concurred in by defendant orally, was excused for cause. Thereafter the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The conviction was affirmed on appeal. Some years later petitioner...

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