United States ex rel. Hall v. Deegan

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, currently serving two concurrent seven and a half to fifteen year sentences at Sing Sing state prison following his conviction after trial to a jury on two counts of felonious sale of narcotics, seeks his release on a writ of habeas corpus. He now raises a series of constitutional challenges to the validity of the judgment of conviction. However, only one of these need be considered here, since none of the other alleged constitutional violations has been presented to and finally passed upon by the state courts. The one claim as to which he has…