UNITED STATES EX REL. HERAL v. FRANZEN

No. 81-1009.

667 F.2d 633 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Carrie Jean HERAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gayle FRANZEN, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Mulder, Deputy State Appellate Defender, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

David Cassorla, Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Circuit Judge, and SPRECHER, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Carrie Jean Heral, raises two issues on appeal from the district court's denial of her petition for habeas corpus. First, Heral alleges that the failure of her counsel to notify the trial court that she had attempted suicide three days before she entered a guilty plea constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Second, she maintains that a determination of her competence to enter a guilty plea required a specific ruling...

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