UNITED STATES EX REL. SUGGS v. LaVALLEE

No. 72 Civ. 4336.

430 F.Supp. 877 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John SUGGS, Petitioner, v. J. Edwin LaVALLEE, Superintendent, Clinton State Correctional Facility, Dannemora, New York, Respondent.

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

April 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judson A. Parsons, Jr., Summit, N.J., for petitioner by Christopher Kende, New York City, of counsel.

Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City, for respondent by Henry Steinglass, Robert Seewald, Asst. Dist. Attys., New York City, of counsel.


OPINION AND ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

After a long and somewhat tortured history of judicial consideration, this habeas corpus proceeding has culminated in an evidentiary hearing on the issue of petitioner Suggs' competence at the time he entered guilty pleas to one count each of rape and robbery in state court. Both the circumstances of Suggs' incarceration and the procedural route taken by his petition are detailed in my opinions of February...

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