United States Ex Rel. Mark Frasier v. J. L. Casscles, Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility

In 1968, the petitioner Mark Frasier was convicted in New York County Supreme Court for robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree, and possession of a loaded firearm. Based on his plea of guilty in 1961 to grand larceny in the second de gree, he was sentenced as a second felony offender to concurrent terms of fifteen to sixteen years on the robbery count, two and one-half to ten years on the assault count, and three and one-half to ten years on the firearms count. He is presently serving these sentences.

The district court denied Frasier’s application under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 et…