Lonardo v. Langlois

This application for a writ of habeas corpus was prosecuted, pro se, by an inmate of the adult correctional institutions, hereafter referred to as the petitioner. It alleges, inter alia, that the petitioner, sentenced to a three-year term on his plea of nolo contendere, was denied his .constitutional right to trial by jury' and that the sentencing superior court justice was, in effect, without jurisdiction by reason of prejudice. The petitioner prays that the sentence be quashed, a trial by jury be ordered, and that he be admitted to bail pending such trial. . •

We issued the writ and…