J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises the question whether a person accused of a narcotics offense who pleads guilty to that offense, without knowledge that he will be ineligible for parole from the sentence he receives, enters his guilty plea voluntarily with an understanding of the consequences of the plea. We conclude that he does not.
Appellant Bye, along with a co-defendant, was indicted in 1966 on two counts under the narcotics laws, 21...
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