UNITED STATES EX REL. SCRANTON v. STATE OF N. Y.

No. 672, Docket 75-2145.

532 F.2d 292 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Agnes SCRANTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. The STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Gerald M. Labush, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, Peter L. Zimroth and Robert M. Pitler, Asst. Dist. Attys., New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before MEDINA, MULLIGAN and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Agnes Scranton appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard Owen, Judge) entered November 10, 1975, which denied her petition for a writ of habeas corpus. She claims that the failure of the state to prosecute her for some five years after her indictment in January of 1970 deprived her of her constitutional right to a speedy trial and that the indictment must therefore...

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