Legal Opinion
Steven Anthony Heiser v. Joseph Ryan, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 13, 1991No. 90-3434PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QPINION OF THE COURT
NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.
Steven Heiser has waited more than eleven and one-half years for a Pennsylvania state court to hear his motion to withdraw a guilty plea. In addition, four years have passed without a hearing or ruling by Pennsylvania on Heiser’s Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act (“PCHA”) petition, which claims that his trial counsel coerced his guilty plea and that his plea was involuntary.
Heiser filed a habeas petition contending that this post-verdict delay violated his due process rights and that his guilty plea was neither knowing nor voluntary. The…
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3Cited by30 opinions
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