Paul Courter Holland v. Clarence T. Gladden, Warden, Oregon State Penitentiary

Paul Holland wants out from the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he is presently confined under a twenty-year sentence for rape, and a five-year sentence for burglary. By this, and other actions, he has challenged the validity of his confinement. Federal relief has uniformly been denied on the ground that, in any event, he is validly confined under the five-year sentence, which he concededly has never attacked. See McNally v. Hill, 293 U.S. 131, 55 S.Ct. 24, 79 L.Ed. 238 (1934).

He now seeks an order directing the state court to expunge the record of his conviction on the rape charge. But even…