Robert Steven Mosher v. J. Edwin Lavallee, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora,new York

On this appeal from an order entered in the Southern District of New York, Frederick van Pelt Bryan, District Judge, granting a state prisoner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus after an evidentiary hearing, the essential issue is the correctness of the district court’s conclusion that the prisoner’s guilty plea must be vacated because it was involuntarily entered or because the prisoner was denied the effective assistance of counsel. We hold that the district court's findings of fact are not clearly erroneous and that its conclusions of law reflect a correct application of the…