WELCOME v. VINCENT

No. 76 Civil 1562.

418 F.Supp. 1088 (1976)

Ernest WELCOME, Petitioner, v. Leon J. VINCENT, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent.

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

September 2, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia P. Heit, New York City, for petitioner.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, for respondent; Joseph W. Henneberry, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, now serving a sentence of twenty-five years to life imprisonment in Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, seeks his release on a federal writ of habeas corpus. He claims he was denied his right to a fair trial under the Fourteenth Amendment by the refusal of the trial judge to allow him to examine a defense witness as to a confession previously made by that witness, and by the alleged...

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