Norman Lee Pledger v. United States

Appellant filed this habeas corpus proceeding in the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky alleging that he was being illegally held and detained against his will in the United States Public Health Service Hospital at Lexington, Kentucky. He challenged the validity of the judgment under which he was being held in confinement on the grounds that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict of guilty, entrapment by federal officers, and that he was mentally incompetent at the time of trial.

The District Judge sustained the Government’s motion to dismiss the action on the…