People v. Bofill

Illegal search and seizure and a confession tainted with coercion induced by police brutality are the reasons advanced by defendant in this coram nobis motion, dated August 8, 1962, for its support, with the aim of these reasons directed at the vitals of the judgment of conviction so as to cause its upset.

The judgment has, since 1951, been predicated upon an avouched plea of guilty to the lesser charge of murder in the second degree, pursuant to a compromise arranged by the trial attorneys who had represented defendant at that time.

In the circumstances of this case, however, neither of the…