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SCHWIMMER v. COUGHLIN

No. 82 Civ. 2080(MEL).

543 F.Supp. 411 (1982)

Leon SCHWIMMER, Petitioner, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, as Commissioner of Corrections of the State of New York, Respondent.

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

July 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Anolik, New York City, for petitioner.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N. Y., New York City, for respondent; Daphne A. Fuller, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

On September 19, 1977, three men followed an Indian diamond merchant from the U. S. Customs House into a subway and robbed him of $150,000 worth of diamonds. The men were apprehended and one of them implicated petitioner, Leon Schwimmer. Having learned that the police sought his arrest, Schwimmer turned himself in to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. He was charged by felony complaint and released on $25,000 bail.

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