Holland v. Gladden

SOLOMON, Chief Judge.

Petitioner filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus to set aside his conviction and twenty-year sentence based upon his plea of guilty to an information charging him with rape. Petitioner does not attack the five-year sentence for burglary, simultaneously imposed upon him. Petitioner admits that he committed the burglary and that he freely confessed and entered his plea on that count. However, petitioner alleges that he was coerced into signing a confession to the charge of rape. He further alleges that this coercion followed *655him into court and vitiated his waiver…