MATTER OF GAMBADORO v. LA VALLEE


20 Misc.2d 554 (1960)

In the Matter of Thomas Gambadoro et al., Petitioners, v. J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Frances Kahn et al., Petitioners, v. Paul D. McGinnis, as Commissioner of Correction of the State of New York, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Frances Kahn et al., Petitioners, v. J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Rensselaer County.

January 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances Kahn, petitioner in person, and for other petitioners.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General, for respondents.


HARRY E. SCHIRICK, J.

These are applications by three inmates of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, to direct the Warden to permit them to confer with their attorney privately "within sight, but outside of hearing" of a prison guard.

On August 11, 1959 petitioners' attorney wrote to the Warden asking permission to interview a total of 34 prisoners. She has been permitted to interview the petitioners but the Warden has insisted upon having a...

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