Lyonel Janvier v. United States

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Lyonel Janvier, an alien who has served a term of imprisonment for smuggling and counterfeiting offenses, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Roger J. Miner, then -District Judge, denying his motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1982) to vacate his sentence. Janvier contended that he had been deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at his sentencing by reason of his counsel’s failures (1) to request, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1251(b) (1982), that the sentencing judge…