MAPP v. WARDEN, N. Y. STATE CORR. INST. FOR WOMEN, BEDFORD HILLS

No. 494, Docket 75-2119.

531 F.2d 1167 (1976)

Dollree MAPP and Alan Lyons, Petitioners-Appellants, v. WARDEN, NEW YORK STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN, BEDFORD HILLS, NEW YORK, and Warden, Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Comstock, New York, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, for appellant Mapp.

Nancy Rosner, New York City (Rosner, Fisher & Scribner, Jeffrey Dwight Ullman, New York City, of counsel), for appellant Lyons.

Barry Dorfman, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before MANSFIELD, OAKES and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Dollree Mapp and Alan Lyons, each convicted of a State narcotics offense, sought a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, primarily on the ground that certain evidence introduced at their joint trial was the product of an unconstitutional search. They appeal from the dismissal of their petition by Judge Walter Bruchhausen. We affirm.

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