UNITED STATES v. FOLLETTE

No. 67 Civ. 4258.

289 F.Supp. 664 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Roberto PEREZ, Petitioner, v. Harold W. FOLLETTE, Warden, Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

September 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberto Perez, pro se.

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


OPINION

WEINFELD, District Judge.

The record demonstrates that petitioner had the benefit of the advice not only of his retained counsel at and prior to the time of the entry of his guilty plea, but, in addition, of other lawyers who had previously represented him. The trial court accepted the plea only after a thorough questioning of petitioner established that he offered it freely and voluntarily. The conclusory and free-wheeling allegations of petitioner...

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