PARKER v. ROSS

No. 71-1925.

470 F.2d 1092 (1972)

Charles Lee PARKER, Appellee, v. Fred R. ROSS, Superintendent of Caledonia Correctional Unit, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob L. Safron, Asst. Atty. Gen. of N.C. (Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen. of N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Norman B. Smith, Greensboro, N.C. (Court-appointed counsel) [Smith, Patterson, Follin & Curtis, Greensboro, N.C., on brief], for appellee.

Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, Circuit Judge.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Parker is the Parker in the Brady-McMann-Parker trilogy.1 The Supreme Court has previously rejected Parker's contention that he should be granted a new trial and allowed to plead again because his guilty plea was the product of a coerced confession and his fear of the death penalty. Parker v. North Carolina, 397 U.S. 790, 90 S.Ct. 1458, 25 L.Ed.2d 785 (1970). Because...

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