United States ex rel. Rosner v. Warden

GURFEIN, District Judge:

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought on behalf of Joseph Winograd and Dominic Montemarano. Dates are important to an understanding of the legal issues raised.

Winograd seeks relief from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered January 3, 1972, convicting him, upon his plea of guilty to thirteen counts of Criminal Usury under former N.Y. Penal Law § 2401, seven counts of Criminal Usury under New York’s revised Penal Law § 190.40, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, e. 40 and various other counts charging violations of the Penal Law. He was…