HEATH v. UNITED STATES PAROLE COM'N

Docket 85-2167.

788 F.2d 85 (1986)

George HEATH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION and Robert Henderson, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

April 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Heath, pro se.

Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., N.D. N.Y., Albany, N.Y., for defendant-appellee U.S. Parole Com'n.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., for defendant-appellee Robert Henderson.

Before LUMBARD, CARDAMONE, and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

George Heath, pro se, appeals from a judgment entered May 7, 1985 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Munson, C.J.), denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (1982), and seeks assignment of counsel. This case illustrates the unreliability of the proverb "where there's smoke, there's fire." Cf. Lyly, Euphues (1579). What makes the proverb...

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