Brown v. Parratt

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

URBOM, Chief Judge.

Melvin George Brown, an inmate at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, has petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus. He was sentenced to imprisonment for ten to twenty years by the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, on April 13, 1972, following his conviction for robbery, with the sentence increased by virtue of the Nebraska Habitual Criminal Act.

The petitioner alleges:

1. That he was denied a speedy trial in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution;

2. That he was denied due process of law because of…