WILLIE C. COLEMAN, APPELLANT,
v.
LAWRENCE E. WILSON, WARDEN, ETC., APPELLEES

9th Cir. | 1968-10-08
No. 22069
401 F.2d 536 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1968) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM:

PER CURIAM:

The district court dismissed without a hearing a petition for habeas corpus alleging that appellant’s guilty plea was not voluntarily and knowingly made, but was the product of (1) promises of probation, (2) fear of the death penalty, (3) threatened withdrawal of counsel on the eve of trial, and (4) appellant’s ignorance of the consequences of his plea.

Since the first ground has not been presented to the state courts, we do not consider it. As to the second ground, we agree with the district court that the record conclusively establishes it to be without merit.

We conclude, however, that the district court erred in rejecting the third and fourth grounds on the pleadings. The conflict between allegations made by appellant in his petition and the statements made by appellant’s counsel in the affidavit filed by the State could not be resolved against appellant without an evi-dentiary hearing. Machibroda v. United States, 368 U.S. 487, 494, 496, 82 S.Ct. 510, 7 L.Ed.2d 473 (1962); Wright v. Dickson, 336 F. 2d 878, 882-883 (9th Cir. 1964).

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.


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