UNITED STATES EX REL. COLEMAN v. HICKS

Civ. No. 79-3495.

498 F.Supp. 636 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Sylvester COLEMAN, Petitioner, v. Sidney HICKS et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour Margulies, Jersey City, N. J., for petitioner.

Bruce Myron Merrill, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of New Jersey, Div. of Criminal Justice, Princeton, N. J., for respondents.


OPINION

LACEY, District Judge.

Petitioner in this habeas corpus action, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, was indicted by an Essex County Grand Jury for unlawful possession of marijuana, unlawful possession of a dangerous knife, atrocious assault and battery, and murder. N.J.S.A. 24:21-20; N.J.S.A. 2A:151-41; N.J.S.A. 2A:90-2; N.J.S.A. 2A:113-1 and 2. Petitioner pled not guilty to all charges; the State chose to go to trial on the murder indictment. Petitioner was...

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