Legal Opinion
Ross Caudill v. Arnold R. Jago
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 22, 1984No. 83-3886PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Ross Caudill appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, The question presented is whether Caudill’s guilty plea to a charge of aggravated^ murder was the result of coercion due to the statements of a state court judge.
Caudill was indicted in 1974 in Allen County, Ohio, for aggravated murder with a death penalty specification because the victim was a police officer engaged in official duties at the time of the offense. Ohio Rev.Code § 2903.01. After Caudill entered a plea of nolo…
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