United States v. Alan Peter Quin

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion presents some troublesome questions, not the least of which are precisely what occurred and what is claimed. The court not only denied the motion, but imposed a $2,000 sanction upon counsel, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 11, for “an unreasonable and vexatious twisting of criminal procedure [that was] disturbing and frivolous.”

The facts were these. One Burke, as owner and master, and defendant Quin as crew, were the complement of an American vessel seized by the Coast Guard off the Virgin Islands and found to contain 41,000 pounds of…