United States ex rel. Duchin v. Follette

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from Green Haven State Prison, where he is presently incarcerated pursuant to a state court judgment of conviction. While petitioner generalizes his claim for federal intervention upon alleged violations of various federally protected constitutional rights, the essential thrust of his petition is a denial of due process in that his plea of guilty upon which the judgment of conviction was entered was coerced and involuntary. State remedies have been properly exhausted.1

On January 31, 1961 petitioner was…