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U.S. EX REL. SAVITZ v. GALLAGHER

Civ. A. No. 92-3198.

800 F.Supp. 228 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edward SAVITZ v. J. Patrick GALLAGHER, Commissioner of Philadelphia Prisons, and Wilhelmina Speach, Warden of the Philadelphia Detention Center, and Lynne Abraham, District Attorney of Philadelphia.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Lore, Sacks, Basch, Weston & Sacks, Barnaby C. Wittels and Stephen R. LaCheen, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

Ronald Eisenberg, Deputy Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

BARTLE, District Judge.

Petitioner Edward Savitz ("Savitz"), presently in state custody awaiting trial and ill with AIDS, has filed this Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus challenging the constitutionality of the bail set by the Pennsylvania Superior Court and seeking release from detention. Jurisdiction is proper in this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241.1

Savitz was arrested in Philadelphia on March...

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