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WRIGHT v. BOMBARD

No. 79 Civ. 1032.

472 F.Supp. 56 (1979)

Melvin WRIGHT, Petitioner, v. Roy F. BOMBARD, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility, Respondent.

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

June 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, for petitioner.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., New York City, for respondent; Gale D. Berg, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, presently serving an indeterminate sentence of six years to eighteen years at the Greenhaven Correctional Facility following his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree after a jury trial in the Supreme Court, New York County, seeks his release upon a federal writ of habeas corpus. He contends that the judgment of conviction is constitutionally void for violation of his Fifth Amendment right against...

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