Legal Opinion
Lane v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 1982No. 80-1240PublishedCited by 473 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
In 1975, respondents pleaded guilty in Illinois state court to a charge of burglary, an offense punishable at that time by imprisonment for an indeterminate term of years and a mandatory 3-year parole term. We granted certiorari to consider whether the failure of the trial court to advise respondents of that mandatory parole requirement before accepting their guilty pleas deprived them of due process of law. We are unable to reach that question, however, because we find that respondents’ claims for relief are moot.
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On March 11, 1975, respondent Lawrence Williams ap-. peared in Illinois state…
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