MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Robert A. Trombley, petitioned the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. He attacks his state court conviction for murder in the first degree in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, in 1963, when he was sixteen years old. He received a life sentence without eligibility for parole.
Trombley entered a plea of guilty to murder, a so-called "open" or special plea under Michigan law. He then requested the state trial court...
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