UNITED STATES EX REL. NIXON v. FOLLETTE

No. 68 Civil 4317.

299 F.Supp. 253 (1969)

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

United States District Court S. D. New York.

April 18, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Nixon, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, New York City, for respondent, Murray Sylvester, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, currently serving a ten to thirty-year sentence as a third felony offender at Green Haven state prison imposed upon his conviction of second degree robbery entered upon his plea of guilty, seeks his release upon a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner alleges that following his arrest he was not advised of his right to remain silent before "being forced under compulsion to sign his name to a confession"; also...

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