EDWARDS v. GARRISON

Nos. 74-1791, 74-2038.

529 F.2d 1374 (1975)

Robert Mitchell EDWARDS, Appellant, v. Warden Sam P. GARRISON, Central Prison, Raleigh, N.C., and State of North Carolina, Appellee. Donald Bynum BASS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 13, 1975.

Certiorari Denied March 1, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Donald Carroll, Jr., Charlotte, N.C. [court-appointed counsel] (Helms, Mulliss & Johnston, Charlotte, N.C., on brief), for appellant in Nos. 74-1791 and 74-2038.

Richard N. League, Asst. Atty. Gen. of N.C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of N.C., on brief), for appellees in No. 74-1791.

Leonard M. Linton, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. (Jervis S. Finney, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee in No. 74-2038.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied March 1, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 1421.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

These appeals present common questions of when and under what circumstances prisoners, convicted upon their pleas of guilty, are entitled to an evidentiary hearing on their allegations that their pleas were not voluntary when their allegations to establish involuntariness apparently conflict with their representations made at the time that their pleas were accepted.

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