United States ex Rel. Royster v. McMann

Full title: UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James ROYSTER, Relator-Appellant, v…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Oct 15, 1970

433 F.2d 1013 (2d Cir. 1970)

Opinion

No. 106, Docket 32919.

Argued October 15, 1970.

Decided October 15, 1970.

Susan E. Crandall, New York City (James J. McDonough, Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, and Matthew Muraskin, Mineola, N.Y., on the brief), for relator-appellant.

Michael Colodner, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice,^_ LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

_ United States Supreme Court, retired, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

We affirm in open court the judgment of the district court denying plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that denial of petitioner's pro forma request for a suppression hearing did not violate due process, for the reasons given in Judge Weinstein's opinion, reported at 292 F. Supp. 116.