Legal Opinion
Vaughan v. Groose
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided May 4, 1995No. 90-0804-CV-W-3-PPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ELMO B. HUNTER, Senior District Judge.
Petitioner, a convicted state prisoner currently confined at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Missouri, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). Petitioner challenges his 1988 conviction for first degree murder and the sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed pursuant thereto.
Petitioner raises the following grounds for relief: (1) his constitutional rights were violated when he was coerced into entering into an “Alford plea bargain” and his case was transferred to a…
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- Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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