The People v. Kessler

The defendant, Floyd Ray Kessler, filed an amended post-conviction petition in the circuit court of Bureau County, seeking relief from judgments finding him guilty under two indictments for armed robbery and sentencing him to imprisonment under each indictment for a term of not less than to years nor more than life. The sentences were to run concurrently. At the post-conviction hearing the defendant claimed that he had been deprived of his liberty without due process of law in that he was induced to change his pleas of not guilty to pleas of guilty by an unfulfilled promise of the prosecutor…