United States of America Ex Rel. Theodore Geisler v. Gilbert A. Walters, Superintendent, Western Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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• noting three years and four months to decide motion was inordinate delay sufficient to excuse the exhaustion requirement
• stating in dicta that three years and four months to decide motion for new trial was inordinate delay sufficient to obviate the exhaustion requirement
• taking judicial notice of briefs and petitions filed in state court, “as the United States District Court could have done”
• finding a delay of three years and four months inordinate and excusing exhaustion
• PCHA remedy unnecessary after affirmance by Superior Court and denial of allocatur by Supreme Court
• federal habeas corpus allowed where P.C.H.A. petition was filed but denied

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