State ex rel. Crippen v. Tahash

By petition dated September 24, 1963, Ralph Wesley Crippen made application to this court “to appoint counsel to represent petitioner in a Habeas Corpus proceeding to be had in Washington County, State of Minnesota, wherein it will be alleged that petitioner’s constitutional rights under the United States Constitution were violated in that the County Attorney of Steele County knowingly and unlawfully suppressed evidence favorable to your petitioner.”

By order dated September 25, 1963, the application was denied upon the ground that the conviction of defendant upon his plea of guilty had been…