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MEDBERRY v. PATTERSON

Civ. A. No. 6303.

174 F.Supp. 720 (1959)

Petition of Ellsworth MEDBERRY, Petitioner, v. Wayne K. PATTERSON, Warden of The Colorado State Reformatory and Harry C. Tinsley, Warden of The Colorado State Penitentiary, Respondents.

United States District Court D. Colorado.

April 14, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel D. Menin, Denver, Colo., for petitioner.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., and John W. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

ARRAJ, District Judge.

This matter having come on to be heard before the Court on the 16th day of March, 1959, involves the petition of Ellsworth Medberry for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his detention in the Colorado State Reformatory1 is unlawful in that after a trial on a charge of first degree murder and conviction of life imprisonment petitioner's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth...

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