United States of America Ex Rel. Jeddy Wilkins v. William J. Banmiller, Warden Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pa

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the District Court’s denial of the relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. It is premised on the contention that the District Court erred when, following its fact-finding that relator had been induced to plead guilty to a murder indictment in a Pennsylvania state court by the duplicitous conduct and fraudulent misrepresentations of his privately-retained attorney, it denied habeas corpus relief on the ground that neither the state court nor the prosecutor had any knowledge, or was put to notice, of the situation and “intervention by this…