HERNANDEZ v. ESTELLE

No. 82-1326. Summary Calendar.

711 F.2d 619 (1983)

Alvaro L. HERNANDEZ, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. W.J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Larry Mathews, Jr., First Asst. Federal Public Defender, El Paso, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

W. Barton Boling, Asst. Atty. Gen., El Paso, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This habeas appeal follows the determination by the district court, based on a magistrate's report, that the guilty plea entered by the petitioner to a charge of attempted escape from the Pecos County Jail in Fort Stockton, Texas,1 and theft of the jailer's automobile was not involuntarily induced.

The petitioner claimed that the guilty plea entered was involuntarily induced through "physical violence, threats, coercion...

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