UNITED STATES EX REL. OLIVER v. VINCENT

No. 307, Docket 73-2246.

498 F.2d 340 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Melvin OLIVER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Leon VINCENT, Warden of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick H. Block, New York City, for petitioner-appellee.

Michael Colodner, Asst. Atty. Gen. of New York, with whom Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, were on the brief, for respondent-appellant.

Before HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.


CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge:

There is before us for review an order of the district court granting a writ of habeas corpus to a state prisoner, hereinafter "petitioner", who had been sentenced to a ten-year term on a plea of guilty found below to have been induced by his attorney's false assurances that an agreement had been reached for the imposition of a more favorable sentence.

Decided after the proceedings...

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