United States ex rel. Starner v. Russell

OPINION

FOLLMER, District Judge.

Donald E. Starner, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution, Hunting-don, Pennsylvania, has filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, in forma pauperis, in this Court. The grounds on which he bases his allegation that he is being held in custody unlawfully are as follows: (1) On a previous Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, he was given a new trial, which relief he did not request; (2) Certain evidence should have been excluded at his second trial1 and (3) The second sentence was harsher for no discernible reason.

Petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of…