Case ID: ny-2d_11/html/1067-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Winfield Isaac Nicholson, Appellant.
    Argued June 12, 1962;
    decided July 6, 1962.
    
      
      Thomas W. Brown for appellant.
    
      John T. Garry, II, District Attorney (Condon A. Lyons of counsel), for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

A defendant who has knowingly and voluntarily pleaded guilty may not thereafter attack the judgment of conviction entered thereon by coram nobis or other post-conviction remedy on the ground that he had been coerced into making a confession and that the existence of such coerced confession induced him to enter the plea of guilty. If a defendant desires to contest the voluntariness of his confession, he must do so by pleading not guilty and then raising the point upon the trial; he may not plead guilty and then, years later, at a time when the prosecution is perhaps unable to prove its case, assert this alleged constitutional violation. The issue as to whether the confession was illegally obtained is waived by the guilty plea. People v. Berger (9 N Y 2d 692) clearly differs from this case in its fact pattern.

Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Dye, Fuld, Froessel, Van Voorhis, Burke and Foster concur.

Order affirmed. .