In Re the Personal Restraint of Myers

In October 1983, petitioner Obert Myers assisted one Joseph Gertz in the armed robbery of the Bank of Pacific's Naselle-Grays River Valley branch. Although Gertz was armed, Myers did not carry a weapon. Gertz forced the four tellers into the bathroom at gunpoint, but none of the tellers was physically injured.

One month later, authorities apprehended and questioned Myers. He was very cooperative, confessing to his own participation and implicating Gertz. According to Myers, Gertz tricked him into coming to Oregon, and then exerted some degree of coercion which prevented Myers from terminating…