HUTCHINSON v. CRAVEN

No. 23224.

415 F.2d 278 (1969)

William Curtis HUTCHINSON, Appellant, v. Walter S. CRAVEN, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 14, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred C. Cavagnaro (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Rose-Marie Gruenwald (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen., William E. James, Asst. Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before HAMLEY, ELY and CARTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

William Curtis Hutchinson, in California penal custody under a 1964 conviction for first-degree murder, applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The sole ground for relief urged in his application was that his plea of guilty was not voluntary but was coerced. Hutchinson has exhausted his state court remedies with respect to this issue, having raised it on his state appeal and in five state habeas applications.

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