Legal Opinion
Barry K. Leavitt v. Francis Howard, Warden, Adult Correctional Institution
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 24, 1972No. 72-1016PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
Barry K. Leavitt, 20 years old, married, was living in March 1964 on the second floor of an apartment house in Providence, Rhode Island. On the morning of March 23, 12-year old Michael Pono, who lived on the first floor, came home from school because he had forgotten his lunch money, and was stabbed to death. Shortly thereafter, Leavitt called the police from a telephone in his mother-in-law’s nearby house and reported that, attracted by screams, he had come down the stairs in the apartment house and that an assailant had cut him and escaped. After taking him to a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by44 opinions
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