Legal Opinion
Chester Banks v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1957No. 15559_1PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
Banks, not a lawyer, appeals propria persona from a denial of his motion in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding without a hearing and the denial of his motion for the transcript of the reporter’s notes of the trial in which he was originally convicted. The court held the motions stated no cause of action.
Banks’ motion alleges his facts in the formal motion itself and in two affidavits all filed the same day. One concerns Banks’ entrapment by federal officers to purchase heroin with their money furnished him by them.
If these allegations be true they constitute an abuse of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Sorrells v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
3Cited by9 opinions
- James C. Simmons v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1962
- Johnston v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 1973
- Mathew L. Evans v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1969
- Johnson v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1971
- Chester Banks v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
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