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JORDON v. CLEMMER

No. 3273.

80 F.Supp. 539 (1947)

JORDON v. CLEMMER.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

September 11, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Holzworth, of White Plains, N. Y., for petitioner.

George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty., and Oliver Dibble, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., opposed.

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

Thomas Jordon was convicted on a charge of murder in the first degree and on April 30, 1936 he was sentenced to be executed. Thereafter the sentence was commuted by the President of the United States to life imprisonment. He now applies for a writ of habeas corpus, urging that the conviction was not properly obtained.

In 1939 he applied for a writ of habeas corpus, to review the conviction; the writ was granted and a hearing took...

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