Legal Opinion
Black v. Coombe
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 5, 1981No. 80 Civ. 4994 (GLG)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
GOETTEL, District Judge.
Petitioner, who is serving a sentence of fifteen years to life, following a guilty plea to the murder of an off-duty police officer during the course of a robbery, seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He contends that he should have received no more than a fifteen-year sentence, pursuant to his plea bargain, and that he was never adequately advised that intent was an element of the crime of second degree intentional murder.
Procedural Background
Petitioner’s guilty plea was entered in April of 1968 before Justice Peter T. Farrell of the New York…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Santobello v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Henderson v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- John Kelleher, Petition-Appellant v. Robert J. Henderson, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Arthur Nathaniel Aiken v. James Spalding, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, and Ken Eikenberry, Attorney General, State of WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Commonwealth v. DuestMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1988
- Black v. CoombeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Arthur Nathaniel Aiken v. James Spalding, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, and Ken Eikenberry, Attorney General, State of WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Caldarola v. QuickDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1983