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HEISER v. RYAN

No. 90-3434.

951 F.2d 559 (1991)

Steven Anthony HEISER, Appellant, v. Joseph RYAN, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. White (argued), Acting Federal Public Defender, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Maria V. Copetas (argued), Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.

Before COWEN and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.

Steven Heiser has waited more than eleven and one-half years for a Pennsylvania state court to hear his motion to withdraw a guilty plea. In addition, four years have passed without a hearing or ruling by Pennsylvania on Heiser's Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act ("PCHA") petition, which claims that his trial counsel coerced his guilty plea and that his plea was involuntary.

Heiser filed a habeas...

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