TYLER v. SWENSON

No. 73 C 636 (3).

382 F.Supp. 1028 (1974)

Melvin Leroy TYLER, Petitioner, v. Harold R. SWENSON, Warden, Respondent.

United States District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

September 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petitioner, pro se.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., of Missouri, Neil MacFarlane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WANGELIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court upon Petitioner's action under the Federal Habeas Corpus Statutes, 28 U.S.C. § 2241 et seq. Petitioner is seeking to have two 1964 guilty pleas set aside on the grounds that said pleas were coerced, and therefore, involuntary, because: (1) the charges were made under the Habitual Criminal Act; (2) the prosecutor threatened that petitioner would be sentenced to fifty (50)...

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