People ex rel. Strachan v. Colon

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Brenda Soloff, J.), entered May 8, 1990, which dismissed petitioner’s writ of habeas corpus, denied him an evidentiary hearing, and remanded petitioner to the custody of the New York City Department of Correction to be extradited to Florida, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

On November 1, 1946, Police Officer John Milledge was shot to death while on duty in Miami, Florida. Although petitioner immediately became a suspect and the police had information that petitioner had fled to New York, the police made no effort to locate petitioner during the…