Legal Opinion
Vincent Edward Fields v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 12, 2000No. 98-3025PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Vincent Edward Fields filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence. The District Court 1 denied the motion, but granted a certificate of appealability limited to the question of whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge the jury instructions on one of the counts against Fields. Upon de novo review, we affirm. See United States v. Apker, 174 F.3d 934, 937 (8th Cir.1999) (standard of review).
A jury convicted Fields of four federal firearms and drug crimes. All of the charges arose from Fields’s participation in a…
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