PEOPLE v. JORDAN


283 A.D. 759 (1954)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Earl L. Jordan, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

February 26, 1954.


In this coram nobis proceeding appellant swears that a representative of the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office promised him that if he would plead guilty to burglary in the second degree on May 12, 1943, he would receive a suspended sentence; that he acted on the promise but was sentenced to Elmira Reformatory. He was then seventeen years old. The District Attorney in office at that time has filed an affidavit in which he swears that he made no such promise...

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