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UNITED STATES v. MYERS

Misc. No. 2973.

242 F.Supp. 477 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John LOWRY v. David N. MYERS, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 14, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Rubin, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

David Durben, Asst. Dist. Atty., Doylestown, Pa., for respondent.

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Relator in this petition for a writ of habeas corpus was convicted in 1951 by a jury in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The jury under Pennsylvania practice fixed the sentence at life imprisonment. The burden of his complaint here, as it was in the state courts where he has exhausted his remedies, is that his prior criminal record was introduced into evidence over his objection. He claims that this...

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