Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Murphy v. Denno
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 19, 1964PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
Petitioner, serving a sentence of twenty years to life at .Sing Sing Prison, entered upon his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree in the County Court, Kings County, State of New York, seeks his release by a Federal writ of habeas corpus, the third such application.
Early in 1958 petitioner filed his second application in this Court, charging that he had been denied the effective aid of competent counsel based upon allegations that his privately retained counsel had tricked him into pleading guilty to murder in the second degree, whereas he was only guilty of…
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- United States v. B. D. TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1962
- Harold George Hoover v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1959
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