Does the transcript of a sentencing hearing contradict appellant's claim that the sentencing was based on coercion and promise of leniency?
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The following excerpt is from Norris v. Wilson, 378 F.2d 324 (9th Cir. 1967):
The majority notes appellant's "broad charges" that his "pleas were the product of coercion and promise of leniency," but asserts that the transcript of the sentencing
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hearing "shows precisely the contrary state of facts." One insurmountable difficulty with this assertion is that appellant's factual allegations "related primarily to purported occurrences outside the courtroom and upon which the record could, therefore, cast no real light." Machibroda v. United States, supra, 368 U.S. 487, 494-495, 82 S.Ct. 510, 514, 7 L.Ed.2d 473 (1962).14[378 F.2d 332]
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