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UNITED STATES v. RUNDLE

Misc. No. 2683.

243 F.Supp. 695 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James Morris JOHNSON v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 30, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Lester Haws, Ardmore, Pa., and Daniel L. Quinlan, Jr., Norristown, Pa., for petitioner.

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

This is a petition for habeas corpus instituted by relator, James Morris Johnson, a Pennsylvania state prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment for murder. State remedies have been exhausted and the case is properly before this Court for decision on the merits of the constitutional question presented herein.1

The issue centers around the controversial "Parker Rule," which was the law of Pennsylvania...

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