Carl Leroy Leonard v. United States

This appeal is taken from an order of the district court denying the appellant’s motion to vacate his federal sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We affirm.

Appellant, represented by privately retained counsel, was convicted on his plea of guilty of the charge of rape on land within the special territorial jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2031. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. In his motion to vacate sentence, appellant alleged as grounds for relief that the district court was without jurisdiction because the crime did not occur within the boundaries…