United States ex rel. Russo v. Thompson

The relator, Frank Russo, is at present confined in. the Federal House of Detention, New York City, where he is awaiting exclusion as an immigrant alien. He has sought seven different writs of habeas corpus, each one of which was dismissed by a judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. From each order of dismissal, he has appealed.

The relator’s first writ was based on the contention that he had an unfair hearing and was improperly found by the Board of Special Inquiry to be an alien of Italian birth. There was evidence to this effect and also some proof that the…