Isadore Olshen v. Daniel McMann as Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by an incarcerated New York State prisoner from the dismissal by Judge Port of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Thirteen years after his 1948 conviction for attempted robbery had been affirmed, People v. Olshen, 276 App.Div. 781, 93 N.Y.S.2d 300 (2d Dept. 1949) appellant sought a writ of error coram nobis from the Kings County Court in order to vacate his conviction. In this request for collateral relief, appellant claimed he had been denied his right to the effective…