Legal Opinion
Pace v. Vaughn
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 7, 2001No. CIV.A. 99-6568PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum
GILES, Chief Judge.
Factual and Procedural History
I. Petitioner’s Requests for Collateral Relief.
On February 13, 1986, Petitioner pled guilty before the Honorable David N. Sav-itt of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County to the charges of possession of an instrument of crime and the second-degree murder of Randolph Baldwin. Judge Savitt sentenced Petitioner, who was then seventeen years old, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Petitioner did not file a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, and he did not file a direct appeal.
However, six months later on…
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