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PRENTISS v. TAYLOR

No. 308.

143 F.Supp. 416 (1956)

Roy A. PRENTISS, Petitioner, v. J. C. TAYLOR, Acting Warden, United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Respondent.

United States District Court M. D. Pennsylvania.

July 9, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Prentiss, pro se.

J. Julius Levy, U. S. Atty., Edwin M. Kosik, Asst. U. S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., Lt. Col. Cecil L. Forinash, Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

FOLLMER, District Judge.

Petitioner, a military prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has filed, in forma pauperis, his application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Petitioner was originally sentenced to death in 1943. The President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and a dishonorable discharge, and the sentence has since then been reduced by various clemency actions to fifteen and one-half years.

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