State v. Plante

These proceedings were commenced pro se with the filing in this court of an instrument wherein the said Edward G. Plante averred that he was being unlawfully deprived of his liberty as an alleged violator of a deferred sentence agreement.

We articulated said instrument as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and directed the warden of the Adult Correctional Institutions, as respondent, to show cause, if any he had, why the writ should not issue. In the same order, we granted petitioner’s motion for the appointment of counsel and directed the public defender to represent him in the further…