Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1992

State ex rel. Warde v. Whitley

State ex rel. Warde v. Whitley
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided September 18, 1992
604 So. 2d 959; 1992 La. LEXIS 2658; 1992 WL 238543 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

State ex rel. Warde v. Whitley

Opinion of the Court

In re Warde, James; — Plaintiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court, Div. “D”, Nos. 68,885, 68,886.

Granted in part; denied in part. The district court is ordered to appoint relator counsel and to conduct an evidentiary hearing on relator’s claims that the state breached the terms of a plea bargain by extraditing him back to Louisiana to finish the remainder of his prison term for armed robbery and that his guilty plea was other*960wise rendered involuntary by threats and physical abuse. In all other respects the application is denied.

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