Haywood v. United States

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Eeference is made to the Court’s opinion dated December 30, 1954, 127 F.Supp. 485, and the order entered thereon directing a hearing on the issues and appointing counsel to represent petitioner’s interests. Petitioner was brought here from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth pursuant to a writ ad testificandum and testified in support of his application.

Upon all the evidence I find that the petitioner has failed to sustain his burden of overcoming the presumption of the regularity of the judgment of conviction 1 in particular, his allegation that he was without…