LaVALLEE v. DUROCHER

No. 1109.

377 U.S. 998 (1964)

LaVALLEE, WARDEN, ET AL. v. DUROCHER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

June 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and Ronald J. Offenkrantz and Barry Mahoney, Assistant Attorneys General, for petitioners. Leon B. Polsky for respondents.


Motion of respondents for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting.

I believe that the issue in this case has an importance which justifies departure from my usual practice of not noting a dissent to a denial of certiorari with which I do not agree. The issue is whether this Court's holding in Gideon v. Wainwright...

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