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SILVERSTEIN v. HENDERSON

No. 535, Docket 82-2028.

706 F.2d 361 (1983)

Norman SILVERSTEIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert HENDERSON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 12, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Young, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

George C. Perry, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Gerald J. Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Norman Silverstein appeals from a January 6, 1982, order of Judge Stewart in the Southern District of New York dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Silverstein is imprisoned in the New York State correction facility at Auburn, serving a nine-to-eighteen year sentence for armed robbery. The heart of his claim is that he was incompetent to stand trial and that his guilty plea was thus constitutionally void. The district court...

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