Legal Opinion
Grinage v. Humphrey
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 16, 1948No. 221PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOLLMER, District Judge.
Petitioner, now a prisoner at United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennslyvania, seeks a writ of habeas corpus alleging under oath in his petition that:
“ * * * he was coerced into entering a plea of guilty, to a crime that he never committed, (sic) coercion was or consisted of threats involving petitioner or connecting petitioner with many other crimes, having been commited (sic) in and around Wheeling, West Virginia, petitioner was not interested into entering a plea of guilty; instead petitioner wanted a trial by a jury, as cited in Article # 6, United States Code,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Setser v. WelchCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1947
- Thomson v. HuffCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
3Cited by2 opinions
- Louis Carter v. Dutchess Community CollegeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
- United States v. LowreyDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1949