VAN PELT, District Judge.
The discretion vested in a prosecuting attorney in filing habitual criminal charges is without doubt an awesome weapon in the hands of law enforcement officials. Once more the use and/or nonuse of the Nebraska recidivist statute brings before this court in a habeas corpus proceeding the question of whether a plea of guilty was coerced. Kenneth Hulett, an inmate in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, has invoked the jurisdiction of...
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