People v. Pendergrass

Appeal by defendant (by permission) from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated February 29, 1972, which denied his application for a writ of error coram nobis, without a hearing. Order reversed, on the law, and proceeding remitted to the Criminal Term for a hearing and a new determination in accordance with the views herein set forth. Defendant brought this proceeding to vacate a judgment which had convicted him of manslaughter in the first degree, alleging that the Trial Justice, the. prosecutor and his assigned defense counsel coerced his plea of guilty by threatening a…