LETTERS v. COMMONWEALTH


346 Mass. 403 (1963)

193 N.E.2d 578

WILLIAM J. LETTERS, JR., vs. COMMONWEALTH (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 4, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold W. Olsson (John W. Linzee with him) for the petitioners.

James W. Bailey, Assistant Attorney General (William T. Buckley, District Attorney, & John F. Driscoll, Assistant District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

Present: SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

At issue on each of these petitions for writs of error is whether the petitioners' pleas of guilty were coerced. The single justice reserved and reported each case without decision. The facts are set out in his findings.

The petitioner Letters, then an eighteen year old high school junior, pleaded guilty on December 19, 1960, to two indictments for being an accessory before the fact of rape and to...

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