United States Ex Rel. Patricia Carnegie v. Ellis C. MacDougall Commissioner of Correction Janet S. York, Deputycommissioner for Women's Services

In 1968, appellant Patricia Carnegie was convicted in the Connecticut state courts of uttering a forged check and obtaining money by false pretenses. After exhausting her state remedies, see State v. Carnegie, 158 Conn. 264, 259 A.2d 628, cert. denied, 396 U.S. 992, 90 S.Ct. 488, 24 L.Ed.2d 455 (1969), appellant petitioned the United States District Court for the District of Con necticut for a writ of habeas corpus. Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld of that court dismissed the petition in September 1969 without an evidentiary hearing, but granted a certificate of probable cause. This appeal followed.