Legal Opinion
Thomas Earl Edmonds v. Major D. C. Lewis, Superintendent of Caledonia Institution, and the State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1976No. 75-2308PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner, a state prisoner, who plead guilty to secret assault, discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, and murder in the second degree, and who received a sentence of 28-30 years imprisonment pursuant to a plea bargain, seeks, by a habeas petition filed in District Court, after exhaustion of state remedies, to invalidate his guilty plea on a number of grounds. The District Court dismissed the petition without a hearing and the petitioner has appealed. We affirm.
While the petitioner has asserted several grounds for relief, only one is sufficiently…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Stanley Eugene Crawford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. I. H. Hammerman, IICourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Robert Mitchell Edwards v. Warden Sam P. Garrison, Central Prison, Raleigh, N.C., and State of North Carolina, Donald Bynum Bass v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
- Gary Darrell Allison v. Stanley Blackledge, Warden, Central Prison, and State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Herman Mathew via v. Superintendent, Powhatan Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1981
- Anderson v. Warden of Powhatan Correction CenterSupreme Court of Virginia · 1981
- Nesbitt v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1991
- Massey v. MartinDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1976
- Anderson v. WARDEN OF POWHATAN CORR. CENTERSupreme Court of Virginia · 1981
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