Keith Dean Gordon v. Sherman H. Crouse, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary

The district court denied appellant’s habeas corpus petition without a hearing. Previously that court had denied two similar petitions, Docket Nos. 3655 H.C. and 3853 H.C., and no appeals had been taken from such denials. Appellant was sentenced in Kansas state court on July 26, 1963, to concurrent terms, the longest of which is five to ten years, on a plea of guilty made when he was represented by counsel of his own choice. He claims that such plea was “involuntary, induced by promises.” The trial court held that appellant had not exhausted the available and effective Kansas post-conviction…