Legal Opinion
Bernard E. Laclair v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 1967No. 15673_1PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KILEY, Circuit Judge.
LaClair, a federal prisoner, has appealed from a judgment dismissing, without an evidentiary hearing, his fifth collateral attack on his federal conviction and sentence for bank robbery. We affirm.
LaClair is serving a thirty-year sentence imposed in 1954 on conviction of six charges of bank robbery plus a consecutive five-year sentence for attempted escape. He pleaded guilty to all these charges. His first section 2255 1 motion, filed in August, 1959, was based on allegations of a coerced confession, prejudicial publicity and broken promises of his trial counsel. The…
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