Cofield v. United States
| Decision Date | 22 June 1959 |
| Docket Number | No. 677,M,677 |
| Parties | Lester COFIELD, Jr., petitioner, v. UNITED STATES. isc |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Mr.
William F. McKenna, for petitioner.
Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Wilkey, and Beatrice Rosenberg, for the United States.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In view of all the circumstances under which this defendant entered a plea of guilty and the plea was accepted, the petition is granted and the sentence is vacated and the cause remanded with instructions to allow petitioner to withdraw his plea of guilty and plead anew.
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