In re Anonymous

John D. Bennett, S.

The question has been raised as to whether imprisonment in a Federal prison while serving a three-year sentence for transporting in interstate commerce a stolen vehicle is such a crime as would deprive the person imprisoned of his civil rights under section 510 of the Penal Law.

The relevancy of the above question is important in determining* whether the consent of the infant’s father in this adoption proceeding “shall not be required” because he “has been deprived of civil rights ” (Domestic Relations Law, § 111).

*1074A case directly in point (Matter of O’Connor v. Cohen, 173…