Is a plea of guilty to second degree murder involuntary?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hoover v. State of N. Y., 607 F.2d 1040 (2nd Cir. 1979):
On June 17, 1976 the United States Supreme Court decided Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 96 S.Ct. 2253, 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976) holding that a plea of guilty to second degree murder without adequate notice to the defendant that he was admitting an essential element of that offense, intent to cause death, was involuntary and that the judgment of conviction was entered without due process of law.
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