Legal Opinion
United States v. Crystal Marie Unger
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 18, 1983No. 82-1816PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Chief Judge.
On July 20, 1977, Crystal Marie Unger and her husband Robert Ellis Unger both pleaded guilty in federal district court to the crime of kidnapping under 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a) (1976). They both were given a fifty-year sentence. Crystal Marie Unger brings this appeal from the district court’s denial of her motion to vacate her sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1976).
On December 11, 1976, the Ungers were in Waterloo, Iowa, visiting Vicky Howard, a woman who at one time had been married to Crystal Unger’s first husband. Vicky had planned to go out for the evening and it was…
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