United States ex rel. Headley v. Mancusi

OPINION AND ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

In their consolidated petitions for habeas corpus 1 petitioners Headley, Huntley and Sams raise four constitutional challenges to their 1960 conviction for armed robbery. They claim: (1) that the admission into evidence of an illegally seized gun violated the exclusionary rule laid down in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S.Ct. 1684, 6 L.Ed.2d 1081 (1961); (2) that the admission into evidence of Huntley’s confession implicating the other petitioners, coupled with his failure to take the stand, deprived Headley and Sams of the right ,to…