Legal Opinion
Alston v. United States
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided December 8, 1975No. Civ. A. No. 75-61(C)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND JUDGMENT
DALTON, District Judge.
On August 23, 1972, Robert M. X. Alston was sentenced in this Court by the Honorable H. Emory Widener, Jr. to twenty years in jail for bank robbery. Alston had withdrawn his plea of not guilty and upon inquiry by the Court been allowed to plead guilty to the charge against him. Now, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Alston is petitioning this Court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging errors in his conviction process. Among his allegations are:(1) incompetency of his counsel,(2) his conviction was obtained by an unlawfully induced guilty plea,(3) his…
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