Legal Opinion
George Johnson v. Steven Pinchak Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 22, 2004No. 04-1307PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
When petitioner, George Johnson, pled guilty to felony murder under the misapprehension that he was eligible for the death penalty for that crime, felony murder in New Jersey was not in fact a capital offense." However, after receiving a sentence of life imprisonment with thirty years parole ineligibility and after exhausting his state remedies, Johnson sought federal habeas corpus relief alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and involuntariness of his guilty plea. The District Court ultimately granted relief on grounds that the state court’s…
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