Legal Opinion
Robert Mitchell Edwards v. Warden Sam P. Garrison, Central Prison, Raleigh, N.C., and State of North Carolina, Donald Bynum Bass v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 1, 1976No. 74-1791, 74-2038PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
These appeals present common questions of when and under what circumstances prisoners, convicted upon their pleas of guilty, are entitled to an eviden-tiary hearing on their allegations that their pleas were not voluntary when their allegations to establish involuntariness apparently conflict with their representations made at the time that their pleas were accepted.
Robert Mitchell Edwards, a North Carolina state prisoner, alleged that he was sentenced to a term of thirty years to life in violation of an undisclosed plea bargain that he would receive a maximum sentence…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Stanley Eugene Crawford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Fred J. Wellnitz v. Ray H. Page, Warden, Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- Walters v. HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1972
- Robert Steven Mosher v. J. Edwin Lavallee, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora,new YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Blackledge v. AllisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Jonah Iaea v. Franklin Sunn, Director of the Department of Social Services, State of HawaiiCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Metheny v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2000
- United States v. I. H. Hammerman, IICourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Pettaway v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
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