Ryan v. Louisiana

WEST, Chief Judge:

This matter comes before the Court on petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. On May 19, 1967, before the Criminal District Court for Orleans Parish (County), Louisiana, William P. Ryan, the petitioner herein, was sentenced under the Louisiana Multiple Offender statute, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1, to confinement at hard labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana for a term of fifteen years. For a short time thereafter, while awaiting removal by the state authorities to the confinement facilities at Angola, Ryan was temporarily housed in the Orleans…