United States v. Alan H. Schafer

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from a district court order reducing Alan H. Schafer’s sentence from imprisonment of three years and six months to one year.- We conclude that the district court was without jurisdiction to enter this order. We, therefore, vacate the order and remand the case with instructions to reinstate the original sentence.

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In June, 1980, Schafer was charged in a seventeen count indictment for bribing voters and submitting false and fraudulent absentee ballots through the mails during an election in Dillon County, South Carolina. Schafer pleaded guilty…