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SCHAFFER v. ANDERSON

Nos. 33, 34.

224 F.Supp. 184 (1963)

Charles E. SCHAFFER, Petitioner, v. Raymond W. ANDERSON, Respondent. Raymond CHALMERS, Petitioner, v. Raymond W. ANDERSON, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

December 3, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Leshem and H. B. Rubenstein, Wilmington, Del., for petitioner Schaffer.

David Snellenburg, II, of Killoran & Van Brunt, Wilmington, Del., for petitioner Chalmers.

W. Laird Stabler, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Wilmington, Del., for respondent.

LAYTON, District Judge.

These petitions for habeas corpus draw into question the legality of the admission into evidence of a $20 bill produced by one of the petitioners pursuant to a demand by a police detective during the course of a routine questioning. This $20 bill constituted significant evidence at the trial of petitioners resulting in their conviction for burglary.

The facts preceding petitioners' detention...

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