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IN RE HUNT

Civ. A. No. 30346.

276 F.Supp. 112 (1967)

In the Matter of Ernestine W. HUNT, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court E. D. Michigan, S. D.

October 25, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark Shanahan, Owosso, Mich., and B. J. George, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich., for petitioner.

Frank Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., by Robert Deitrick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl Waag, Asst. Pros. Atty., Pima County, Ariz., amicus curiae, Marjorie F. McGowan, Detroit, Mich., Asst. Legal Advisor to Governor George Romney.

OPINION AND ORDER

TALBOT SMITH, District Judge.

In this case we must consider the application of the "Great Writ"1 in the most delicate of circumstances, involving the relationship of a lower Federal Court to the legal process of a sovereign state. Arizona has tried the petitioner, on a felony charge, in absentia, (a procedure permitted by Arizona law) and has convicted her. She is in Michigan, before this Court, her extradition...

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