People v. Munday

Defendant, William Munday, appeals from an order which dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. He contends: (1) that a hearing was required to resolve issues raised by defendant’s petition that he lacked effective assistance of counsel when he entered his guilty plea to armed robbery and was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, and (2) the matter should be remanded to the judge before whom defendant entered the guilty plea and was sentenced, rather than to the judge who heard defendant’s post-conviction petition.

Defendant was charged by indictment…