Legal Opinion
In Re Fresquez
California Supreme Court
Decided November 7, 1967No. Crim. 10519PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBurke, J.
In 1962 Robert V. Fresquez, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded guilty to four counts of an indictment charging unlawful sale of marijuana (Health & Saf. Code, § 11531) and was sentenced to prison on each count, the terms to run consecutively. He did not appeal.
In 1966 attorneys for Fresquez, now an inmate at the California Men’s Colony, filed the instant habeas corpus petition, asserting that he did not effectively waive his right to counsel in the trial court and that his guilty pleas were induced by promises of District Attorney C. Keith Lyde, Sheriff Lawrence Gillick, and Police…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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