Landry v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

CAFFREY, District Judge.

John H. Landry, presently incarcerated in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk, Massachusetts, as a result of three concurrent 20 to 25 year sentences imposed on him on April 11, 1959 in Middlesex County Superior Court, for armed robbery, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner says: that pleas of guilty, on the basis of' which he was convicted and incarcerated,, were not voluntary but were induced by his fear that if he proceeded to trial he-would have had to remain in a wire mesh: cage located in the Middlesex County Courtroom where…