JOHNSON v. WILLIAMS

No. 81-1591.

666 F.2d 842 (1981)

Collin L. JOHNSON, a/k/a Samuel Glenn, Appellant v. Ralph L. WILLIAMS, Warden, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. McMahon (argued), Federal Public Defender, Newark, N. J., for Appellant.

James R. Zazzali, Atty. Gen. of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J., for appellees; Carol M. Henderson (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., Div. of Criminal Justice, Princeton, N. J., of counsel and on the Brief.

ADAMS, VAN DUSEN and SLOVITER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

In 1963, appellant Collin L. Johnson was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon, in violation of the laws of Maryland, and sentenced to a term of 40 years at the Maryland House of Corrections. Johnson escaped from that facility in November 1971. A little over a year later, in December 1972, while still a fugitive from Maryland, Johnson was arrested in New Jersey and charged, under three separate indictments,...

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