Turkette v. United States

MEMORANDUM

CAFFREY, Chief Judge.

This is a petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 by Novia Turkette, Jr. who is presently serving a 20-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

The sentence was imposed on Novia Turkette, Jr. on September 5, 1979 and after a reversal by the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, whose opinion is reported at 632 F.2d 896, Turkette’s conviction was reinstated by the United States Supreme Court in an opinion reported at 452 U.S. 576, 101 S.Ct. 2524, 69 L.Ed.2d 246.

The matter is before the court on the government’s motion to…