John K. Riffle v. United States

The appellant was charged, by an information filed in the Northern District of Ohio, with interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle. In the Southern District of Florida, he executed a waiver of counsel, a waiver of indictment, a consent to the transfer of the cause, and a plea of guilty. He was given a five-year sentence.

The appellant wrote a letter to the district judge by whom sentence was imposed saying that on the day he appeared in court he had been out of the hospital for only two days and was under the influence of drugs, and had been promised a sentence by a Federal agent…