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CHESIMARD v. MULCAHY

No. 77-1684.

570 F.2d 1184 (1978)

Joanne CHESIMARD (Assata Shakur), Appellant, v. Robert MULCAHY, Commissioner, Department of Corrections, and William Fauver, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Corrections, and Richard Seidl, Supervising Superintendent, State Prison Complex, Department of Corrections and Thomas Lynch, Superintendent, Yardville Youth Reception and Correction Center.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lennox S. Hinds, Leora Mosston, Evelyn A. Williams, New Brunswick, N. J., for appellant.

William F. Hyland, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Joseph T. Maloney, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., for appellees.

Before ADAMS and GARTH, Circuit Judges and WEINER, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of New Jersey denying an application for a preliminary injunction against the continued incarceration of Joanne Chesimard (also known as Assata Shakur) in the all-male New Jersey state prison in Yardville.

A.

On March 25, 1977, Shakur was found guilty by a New Jersey jury of the murder of a state policeman, and was sentenced to life imprisonment...

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