Holder v. United States

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

Fred Lloyd Holder brings this appeal from an order of the district court denying, without a hearing, his motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Holder had earlier been indicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111(a) and 1114(1) for murder in the first degree of David Pickens while Pick-ens was assisting Kenneth Swift, an employee of the federal government, in performance of his official duties, and for forcibly intimidating and interfering with Swift in the performance of his duties in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111. He was convicted by the jury on the first count of the lesser…