Legal Opinion
In Re Stevens
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided March 16, 1984No. 83-035PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtUnderwood, J.
Petitioner, Gary Frank Stevens, appeals from an order of the Orleans Superior Court denying his petition for post-conviction relief. 13 V.S.A. § 7135. This appeal challenges the voluntariness of petitioner’s plea of guilty to the State’s amended charge of manslaughter, alleges ineffective assistance of counsel, and asserts that petitioner was unable to exercise his right of allocution. We affirm on the voluntariness of the plea and the ineffective assistance of counsel issues, but we agree with petitioner that he was unable to exercise his right of allocution in a meaningful way.
Petitioner…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Gardner v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- United States v. Andrew Jackson RobertsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States of America Ex Rel. Samuel D. Robinson v. Vernon G. HousewrightCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1975
- Earl William Toler, Jr. v. Donald W. Wyrick, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by27 opinions
- State v. SaariSupreme Court of Vermont · 1989
- In Re GregaSupreme Court of Vermont · 2003
- In Re KivelaSupreme Court of Vermont · 1985
- In Re MoultonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1992
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
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