Phillip Gordon v. United States

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This case comes here in an effort to extend to new lengths the principle enunciated by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461, in which the court first authoritatively established the proposition that if an accused in a criminal trial “is not represented by counsel and has not competently and intelligently waived his constitutional right, the Sixth Amendment stands as a jurisdictional bar to a valid conviction and sentence depriving him of his life or his liberty.” 304 U.S. 458, 468, 58 S.Ct. 1024.

The appellant, Philip Gordon…