Legal Opinion
Roger A. Gauntlett v. Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1988No. 87-1488PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
This is a habeas corpus action in which the petitioner Roger Gauntlett claims that state courts violated due process and denied his right to be free of double jeopardy by imposing a harsher sentence after vacating a more lenient one. The district court denied relief, and we affirm.
I
The district court recounted the state court proceedings in detail, Gauntlett v. Kelley, 658 F.Supp. 1483 (W.D.Mich.1987), and we will recite only those facts required to explain our decision.
A
In a plea bargain the petitioner pled no contest in a Michigan circuit court to one count of criminal…
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