Amato v. Robinson

The plaintiff, who is currently serving a sentence of eight to twenty-five years at the Connecticut correctional institution, Somers, brings this habeas corpus petition, alleging that a detainer warrant lodged against him by the New Jersey state board of parole is in violation of his rights under the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States constitution. The detainer warrant is based on a revocation of the plaintiff’s parole by the state board of parole on November 26,1968.

The facts reveal that the plaintiff, while on his second parole from an April 25, 1951, sentence to the New…