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UNITED STATES v. MURPHY

Civ. A. No. 8131.

187 F.Supp. 395 (1960)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Floyd Edgar MARTIN, Petitioner, v. Hon. Robert E. MURPHY, Warden of Auburn Prison, Auburn, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

September 1, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Edgar Martin, petitioner, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York, for respondent; Raymond B. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

JAMES T. FOLEY, District Judge.

This is another of the ever-increasing applications in this District Court for a writ of habeas corpus that challenges a first degree murder conviction of New York. The ground or claim that necessitates serious appraisal under many recent federal rulings is that the conviction for the capital crime was obtained by the use of coerced confessions and involuntary statements extracted from the...

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