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United States ex rel. Flott v. Mancusi

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided May 4, 1971No. 71 Civ. 494PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, now serving a sentence of fifty years to life imprisonment, imposed under a judgment of conviction entered on June 5, 1962, upon his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree in the Supreme Court of the State of New York,1 seeks his release upon a federal writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner had been brought to trial upon an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree in the killing of a police officer during the course of a holdup. The plea of guilty to the reduced charge of murder in the second degree was entered after the…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. MacHibroda v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. United States Ex Rel. Cooper v. ZelkerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1972

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