St. Pierre v. Vitek

Petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in the superior court on October 15, 1973. Plaintiff alleges that his plea of guilty of murder in the second degree which he entered on January 17, 1968, was not intelligent and voluntary. After a hearing, the Trial Court (Loughlin, J.) dismissed the petition and reserved and transferred plaintiff’s exception thereto.

In April 1967, plaintiff, about twenty-one years old, was indicted for the first-degree murder in Newmarket of Amy Brousseau whom plaintiff shot on February 1, 1967, and who died on March 26, 1967, from the mortal wounds which she had…