UNITED STATES EX REL. RIGWOOD v. MANCUSI

No. 68 Civ. 3119.

289 F.Supp. 849 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Richard Peter RIGWOOD, Petitioner, v. Hon. Vincent R. MANCUSI, Warden, Attica State Prison, Attica, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

September 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Peter Rigwood, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for respondent; Michael Jaffe, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

The petitioner, now serving a term of life imprisonment, was convicted upon his plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the first degree. He appealed from the judgment of conviction and, at the same time, sought a writ of error coram nobis. In the latter proceeding he advanced three grounds for relief: (1) that the State had obtained a confession from him shortly after the crime in violation of his constitutional rights; (2) that his guilty...

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