Legal Opinion
David v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 29, 1998No. 97-1398PublishedCited by 228 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Some four years ago, petitioner-appellant Shmuel David filed a motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1994). 1 The district court eventually denied the petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. David appeals. We affirm.
I
Background
On direct appeal, we described the petitioner’s case as “involv[ing] a spider web of drug dealing, with David at the web’s center,” United States v. David, 940 F.2d 722, 726 (1st Cir.1991) (David I), and we proceeded to affirm his convictions on a myriad of charges. Inasmuch as the predicate facts are set out at…
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