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UNITED STATES EX REL. TRANTINO v. HATRACK

No. 76-2018.

563 F.2d 86 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Thomas TRANTINO, Appellant, v. Robert HATRACK, Superintendent, New Jersey State Prison at Rahway.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 1, 1977.

As Amended August 24, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey E. Fogel, Newark, N. J., for appellant.

William F. Hyland, Atty. Gen. of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J., for appellee State of New Jersey; Susan W. Sciacca, Deputy Atty. Gen., Div. of Crim. Justice, App. Section, Princeton, N. J., of counsel and on the brief.

Before VAN DUSEN, GIBBONS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a denial of habeas corpus relief involves three claims stemming from petitioner Trantino's alleged ingestion of psychoactive drugs before and during his trial for murder. The district court found all three claims to be meritless. 408 F.Supp. 476 (D.N.J.1976). However, we find that we may pass upon the district court's disposition of only two, because Trantino...

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