United States ex rel. Nixon v. Follette

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, currently serving a ten to thirty-year sentence as a third felony offender at Green Haven state prison imposed upon his conviction of second degree robbery entered upon his plea of guilty, seeks his release upon a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner alleges that following his arrest he was not advised of his right to remain silent before “being forced under compulsion to sign his name to a confession”; also that he was detained an unreasonable time between his arrest and arraignment before a magistrate and was denied counsel during the delay.

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