U.S. EX REL. SANTANA v. FENTON

Civ. No. 79-3296.

570 F.Supp. 752 (1981)

U.S. ex rel. Rene SANTANA, Petitioner, v. Peter FENTON, Superintendent of Rahway State Prison, and The Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

August 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Lowenstein and Zulima V. Farber, Roseland, N.J., for petitioner.

James R. Zazzali, Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J. by Richard R. Uslan and Marc J. Friedman, Deputy Attys. Gen., Newark, N.J., with George L. Schneider, Prosecutor of the Pleas for Essex County by Hilary L. Brunell, Asst. Prosecutor, Newark, N.J., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM

BIUNNO, District Judge.

On the morning of December 16, 1974, armed robbers entered a basement apartment on Roseville Avenue, in Newark, NJ and announced a "hold up". One of the occupants, Remigio Sanchez, beat one of the robbers on the head with a baseball bat severely enough to cause his death. In the process of this confrontation, Sanchez himself was shot in the abdomen, and eventually died about a month later.

Two others, petitioner...

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