Legal Opinion
Mickey E. Vanater v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 24, 1967No. 10726_1PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge.
Six years after being sentenced to life imprisonment as a recidivist, it occurred to West Virginia state prisoner Mickey E. Vanater that he had been wrongfully “induced” to plead guilty to a third felony upon which the recidivist conviction rested. 1 ******Denied post-conviction relief in the West Virginia Supreme Court, Vanater filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court, and that court, after a plenary hearing, dismissed the petition. We affirm.
Whether The Plea Was Voluntary
At the beginning of the exhaustive hearing in the district…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Alphonzo Edwards v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- Jesse Root v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- Clarence Irvin Turner v. State of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- United States v. B. D. TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by55 opinions
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