McClurkin v. United States

BELSON, Associate Judge:

Appellant seeks review of two orders of the trial court denying collateral relief under D.C.Code § 23-110 (1973) from his guilty plea to one count of second-degree murder while armed in violation of D.C.Code §§ 22-2403, -3202 (1973). 1 Appellant’s principal contentions are: 1) that his plea was made neither voluntarily nor intelligently because both the court and his counsel failed to inform him of the elements of second-degree murder contrary to the holdings of Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 96 S.Ct. 2253, 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976) or, alternatively, in violation of…