UNITED STATES EX REL. SCRANTON v. STATE OF NEW YORK

No. 75 Civ. 1138.

402 F.Supp. 1010 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Agnes SCRANTON, Petitioner, v. The STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

November 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, for petitioner.

Richard H. Kuh, Dist. Atty., New York City, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Petitioner Agnes Scranton, charged with murder of her infant child, has filed a habeas corpus petition seeking dismissal of the New York State criminal indictment on the grounds that she has been denied her right to a speedy trial.1 Her petition poses two threshold jurisdictional questions. First, whether, being at liberty on pretrial parole, she satisfies the "custody" requirement for...

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