Richard Lavoie v. United States

Defendant-appellant while serving a state sentence in a Massachusetts Correctional Institution escaped, stole a car, kidnapped a correctional official and fled to another state. He was there apprehended by an agent of the F.B.I. and returned to Massachusetts, where he was held in default of bail and tried in the district court. Following conviction he was sentenced, “said prison sentence to begin upon release from State custody upon sentence now being served under order of State Court.” He now appeals from an order of the district court denying a motion under Rule 35, Federal Rules of…