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UNITED STATES EX REL. STACHULAK v. COUGHLIN

No. 74-1155.

520 F.2d 931 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Frank STACHULAK, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joseph COUGHLIN et al., Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Jayne Carr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellant.

Robert H. Smith, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Frank Stachulak was committed to the custody of the Illinois Director of Corrections pursuant to the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, Ill. Ann.Stat., ch. 38, § 105-1.01 (Smith-Hurd 1970) et seq., and confined at the Psychiatric Division of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Menard in 1969. Four years later he brought this action under the federal habeas corpus...

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