United States Ex Rel. Raynard Dunn v. J. Leland Casscles, Superintendent, Comstock Correctional Facility

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by a prisoner in state custody is from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Appellant alleges that his plea of guilty in Supreme Court, Bronx County, New York, to the crime of robbery in the third degree, NYPL § 160.05, was constitutionally invalid. The court below asserted that the appellant’s claim of invalidity was based on an assertion of his innocence at the time of his plea, but the claim as we perceive it is more complex, that, within North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25, 91 S.Ct. 160, 27 L.Ed.2d 162 (1970), the state court judge…