SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant Robert Tinder appeals from the dismissal on the merits of his habeas corpus petition by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. We find that there is no federal jurisdiction over Tinder's claim because Tinder was not "in custody" as required by the habeas statute at the time he filed the present petition.
On June 7, 1977, Tinder, then a fourteen-year-old juvenile, was charged in...
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