Legal Opinion
Prentiss v. Taylor
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 9, 1956No. 308PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FOLLMER, District Judge.
Petitioner, a military prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has filed, in forma pauperis, his application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Petitioner was originally sentenced to death in 1943. The President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and a dishonorable discharge, and the sentence has since then been reduced by various clemency actions to fifteen and one-half years.
On January 15,1951, he was conditionally released but recommitted on September 15, 1951, for violation of parole. He was again conditionally released on October 19,…
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