Legal Opinion
James H. Gaddy v. Leland Q. Linahan, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 22, 1986No. 83-8660PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner, James H. Gaddy, is serving a life sentence in Georgia for the crime of malice murder. 1 He was convicted on a plea of guilty of having participated with his uncle, Henry James Gaddy, in the malice murder of Henry Franklin Black in Fulton County, Georgia, on February 23, 1978. Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982) vacating his conviction and sentence on the ground that his guilty plea was involuntary; he claims that he did not understand the elements of the offense of malice murder when he tendered his plea. The district…
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- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by39 opinions
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