People v. Macchi

In a coram nobis proceeding, defendant appeals to this court from an order of the City Court of the City of Hudson, entered July 9, 1964, which denied, without a hearing, defendant’s application to vacate a judgment of said City Court, rendered July 31, 1963, upon defendant ’s plea of guilty convicting him of a violation of section 986-b of the Penal Law and imposing sentence.

Defendant, in his moving papers, claims he was threatened by the State Police and coerced into a guilty plea.

These issues could have been raised upon appeal. No appeal was taken. It is settled law that the remedy of…