United States v. Richard Alfansa Olds, Jr., Honorable Herbert P. Sorg, Nominal

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

In this petition for a writ of mandamus the Government seeks to compel United States District Judge Herbert P. Sorg to set aside an order reducing the sentence of a federal prisoner entered fifteen months after that sentence was imposed.

Respondent Richard Olds, Jr. was convicted on October 26, 1967 of the robbery of a federally insured bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). He was twenty-one years old at the time of the offense and twenty-two when convicted. On January 8, 1968, Judge Sorg entered the following judgment:

“It is adjudged that the…