Opinion
PRESCOTT, J.
This appeal presents the important question of whether, under the common-law contractual "frustration of purpose" doctrine, a habeas petitioner who had been charged with a capital felony and pleaded guilty to murder in order to avoid the imposition of the death penalty is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea...
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