FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge.
Petitioner Elksnis brings this application for a writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that a 1953 New York assault conviction which was the basis of a multiple offender information upon which he was sentenced to 17 years as a multiple offender after a New York conviction for manslaughter, first degree in 1955, was void because it was based on a coerced and involuntary plea of guilty. The 1953 guilty plea was entered in the...
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