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O'TUEL v. OSBORNE

No. 82-6668.

706 F.2d 498 (1983)

William G. O'TUEL, Appellant, v. J.E. OSBORNE, Attorney General of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gwendolyn S. Anderson, J. Christian Annalora, Third Year Law Students (Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Durham, N.C., Duke University School of Law on brief), for appellant.

Barry S. McNeill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Richard N. League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before SPROUSE and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

William G. O'Tuel, a North Carolina inmate, appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.1 A state trial judge had sentenced him to life imprisonment upon his plea of guilty to second degree murder. O'Tuel contends that his guilty plea was entered involuntarily and unintelligently because it was induced by gross misinformation of his counsel concerning...

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