UNITED STATES EX REL. CLEVELAND v. CASSCLES

No. 72 Civ. 2586.

354 F.Supp. 114 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Arnold CLEVELAND, Petitioner, v. J. Leland CASSCLES, Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Comstock, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 17, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Ganz, New York City, for petitioner.

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


OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks the federal writ of habeas corpus on the asserted ground that his ten-year state sentence, following a guilty plea, was adjudged under a misapprehension of fact so vital and prejudicially influential—and so casually accepted, over a protest, from unexamined hearsay—as to violate his right to the due process of law. For reasons hereinafter stated, this court concludes that petitioner must be...

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