UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. RUSSELL

No. 19334.

444 F.2d 1177 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John JOHNSON H-6753, Appellant, v. Harry RUSSELL, Superintendent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Lerner, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Peter S. Greenberg, Deputy Dist. Atty. (James D. Crawford, Deputy Dist. Atty., Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa. on the brief), for appellee.

Before STALEY, ADAMS, Circuit Judges, and GARTH, District Judge.


ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner in this case is collaterally attacking the guilty plea entered by him after completion of the Commonwealth's evidence in a state criminal trial on the grounds that he was inadequately represented by counsel at the time of entering the plea and that the plea was the product of inadequate representation by counsel during the trial.

On July 15, 1966, Johnson was arrested for a robbery which had just been committed. One and...

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