United States Ex Rel. Burton N. Pugach v. Hon. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden of Attica Prison, Attica, New York,respondent-Appellee

In United States ex rel. Pugach v. Mancusi, 411 F.2d 177 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 889, 90 S.Ct. 172, 24 L.Ed.2d 163 (1969), we considered a number of appellant Pugach’s claims attacking the legality of his 1962 conviction for the maiming of Linda Riss and determined that at least two of them were not on their face “so lacking in merit as to warrant denial without a hearing.” 411 F.2d at 179. Noting that Pugach had “mounted an almost unparalleled succession of collateral attacks on his conviction,” some of which were pending at the time we handed down our decision, we suggested that…