PEOPLE v. FARINA


2 N.Y.2d 454 (1957)

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Joseph Farina, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. Silver, District Attorney (William I. Siegel of counsel), for appellant.

Harry Borden and Morris Schaeffer for respondent.

DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE, JJ., concur in Per Curiam opinion.


Per Curiam.

Defendant's plaint, as we read his own inartistically drawn petition for a writ of error coram nobis, is not merely that he was not given the sentence, promised to him by the Trial Judge to induce him to plead guilty, but that he was coerced by the Judge into entering the plea of guilt. Since the record supports his assertion of improper coercion, simply changing the sentence and imposing the one...

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