Legal Opinion
Doherty v. Thornburgh
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 27, 1991No. 1402, Docket 91-2044PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Joseph Patrick Thomas Doherty appeals from a judgment entered on November 13, 1990 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Cedarbaum, J.) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition is grounded on Doherty’s prolonged detention without bond pending deportation as an illegal alien. Doherty has been held in detention since June, 1983 while extradition and deportation proceedings to return him to the United Kingdom, where he was convicted of murder, have been pending. An appeal in a separate action in…
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