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LESKO v. JEFFES

Civ. A. No. 86-1238.

689 F.Supp. 508 (1988)

John Charles LESKO, Petitioner, v. Glen R. JEFFES, Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; Charles Zimmerman, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford; Joseph P. Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview; Henry G. Barr, General Counsel of Pennsylvania; and Leroy Zimmerman, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

May 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rabe F. Marsh, III, Greensburg, Pa., Professor Welsh White, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., for petitioner.

John J. Driscoll, Dist. Atty., John Peck, Asst. Dist. Atty., Greensburg, Pa., Leroy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., Robert Graci, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., Roslyn Robinson, Com. of Pennsylvania, Office of Gen. Counsel, Harrisburg, Pa., Joseph P. Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent, Rockview Correctional Institution, Bellefonte, Pa., for respondents.

Stefan Presser, American Civil Liberties Union, Stewart Lev, Philadelphia, Pa., for amicus curiae ACLU.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BLOCH, District Judge.

Petitioner John Charles Lesko has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, setting forth numerous contentions of error arising out of his trial, conviction and sentence on charges of criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy in the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The Court concludes that petitioner was deprived...

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