Legal Opinion
United States Ex Relator, Gladys Keefe v. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 28, 1955No. 12107_1PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
Richard Thomas Keefe, a private in the United States Army stationed in France, and another American soldier, pleaded guilty October 30, 1953, in a French civil court to a charge that in off-duty hours they had beaten a cab driver and stolen his taxicab. Each is now serving in a French civil prison the five-year sentence imposed upon him by the French court.
December 16, 1953, Keefe’s wife filed in his behalf in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For obvious reasons, Mrs. Keefe did not ask that…
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