Legal Opinion
Edward Lee Wright v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 20, 1980No. 78-2307PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
Edward Lee Wright filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate his 1965 sentence for selling heroin after he was convicted in 1974 for more heroin sales and was sentenced as a second offender. The district court dismissed the motion. We affirm.
On October 23, 1964, Wright was indicted and charged with four counts of illegally selling heroin under the statutory predecessor of 21 U.S.C. §§ 825 and 828. At the arraignment on November 4 of that year, the prosecutor apprised him that the maximum sentence for the final count was twenty years of imprisonment. On January 20, 1965,…
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