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PENNSYLVANIA EX REL. HERMAN v. CLAUDY

No. 45.

350 U.S. 116 (1956)

76 S.Ct. 223

100 L.Ed. 126

PENNSYLVANIA EX REL. HERMAN v. CLAUDY, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 9, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Monte Levy and Marjorie Hanson Matson argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Wray G. Zelt, Jr. argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Harold V. Fergus and John F. Roney.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1945 petitioner Stephen Herman pleaded guilty in a Pennsylvania state court to 8 charges of burglary, 12 of larceny, 8 of forgery, and 2 of false pretense.1 He was sentenced to serve 17 1/2 to 35 years in the penitentiary, 2 1/2 to 5 years on each of the charges, some running consecutively, some concurrently. Eight years later, in 1953, he filed this petition for habeas corpus in...

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