United States of America Ex Rel. Thomas Griffin v. Edward J. Hendrick, Superintendent of County Prisons

Thomas Griffin, appellant herein, was convicted in a Pennsylvania state proceeding on multiple charges of unlawful sale and possession of drugs and is presently serving an aggregate sentence of 15 to 30 years. Having exhausted his remedies of direct appeal and state ha-beas corpus, he applied to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied. United States ex rel. Griffin v. Hendrick, 217 F.Supp. 865 (E.D.Pa.1963).

Griffin had been convicted in a trial where taped recordings of certain of his telephone conversations,…