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WILSON v. RODGERS

No. 409-67.

274 F.Supp. 39 (1967)

Barrington Eugene WILSON, a minor, by Joan Wilson, his mother and next of friend, Petitioner, v. Charles M. RODGERS, Superintendent, District of Columbia Jail, Respondent.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

September 28, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmelyn S. Logan, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Nancy P. D'Amico, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Oscar Altshuler and Judith Wilson, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

OPINION

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presented by a prisoner's mother, the purpose of which is to contest his removal from the District of Columbia Jail to a Federal institution at Petersburg, Virginia.

Two preliminary questions are confronted. The first is whether there is a proper respondent; second, whether the fact that after the petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed the prisoner was removed...

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