WILLIAMS v. PROCUNIER

No. 83-2673 Summary Calendar.

735 F.2d 875 (1984)

Samuel Earl WILLIAMS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Raymond K. PROCUNIER, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Frank Koury, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex. (court appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen. of Tex., Charles A. Palmer, Robert S. Walt, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before RUBIN, JOLLY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A state prisoner seeks habeas corpus to vacate his conviction of Texas state criminal offenses based on pleas of guilty entered in 1968. He alleges that: his pleas were induced by representations made both by his defense counsel and the state's attorney that the prosecutor's recommendation of a 25-year sentence would be binding on the state judge, but the judge in fact sentenced him to 50 years; the state judge failed fully to admonish...

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