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WILLIAMS v. SMITH

No. 423, Docket 78-2097.

591 F.2d 169 (1979)

Joseph A. WILLIAMS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Harold J. SMITH, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rolf Nils Olsen, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y. (Stuart Siris and Kathy K. Priest, Third Year Law Students, Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence, State University of New York, Buffalo, N. Y., on brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Gale D. Berg, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, on brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, MOORE and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Joseph Williams appeals from an order of Judge Curtin of the Western District denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Williams contends that his guilty plea in a state criminal prosecution for possession of narcotics was invalid because it was entered, as a result of sentencing misinformation, without full knowledge of its consequences. Since we agree with Judge Curtin that Williams, though misinformed as to the consequences of his...

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