United States Ex Rel. Navarro v. Johnson

OPINION AND ORDER

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

This is a habeas corpus matter. Petitioner, Santos Navarro, is currently-serving two sentences totalling three and one-half to ten years imposed by Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr. of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County following a non-jury trial in which petitioner was found guilty of aggravated assault and battery upon Juan Ocasio and Joseph Pacheco. 1 Judge Spaeth credited the Commonwealth’s evidence that petitioner had attacked his victims with a knife and rejected petitioner’s testimony that he had acted in…