Frank Panuccio v. Walter Kelly, Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Frank Panuccio appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, J., dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Having pled guilty to the New York State crime of Manslaughter in the First Degree, Panuccio is now serving a sentence of eight and one-third to 25 years imprisonment. Panuccio claimed in the district court that the trial court should not have accepted his guilty plea without further inquiry into whether he was voluntarily and intelligently waiving his right to trial, and…