UNITED STATES EX REL. GEREAU v. HENDERSON

No. 74-3890.

526 F.2d 889 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Beaumont GEREAU, Ishmael LaBeet, Warren Ballentine, Meral Smith and Rafael Joseph, Petitioners-Appellants, v. James D. HENDERSON, Warden, United States Penitentiary, et al., etc., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Kunstler, Center for Rights, J. Otis Cochran (Court-appointed), Margaret Ratner, New York City, for petitioners-appellants.

John W. Stokes, U.S. Atty., J. Robert Cooper, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for respondents-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


John R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Appellants Beaumont Gereau, Ishmael LaBeet, Warren Ballentine, Meral Smith and Rafael Joseph, who are presently incarcerated in various federal prisons within the continental United States, brought this habeas action pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 2241, 2254 and 2255 seeking to be returned from the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons to the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, or, at least, to be incarcerated in the...

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