Legal Opinion
Dwight W. Tolliver v. The United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1977No. 76-1895PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
By a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Dwight W. Tolliver sought to vacate his sentence of two years’ imprisonment plus a special parole term of two years imposed upon his plea of guilty to a charge of conspiracy to manufacture phencyclidine, a controlled substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841. He attacked the volun-tariness of his plea on the ground that he had been denied effective assistance of counsel in tendering it and he had been denied effective assistance of counsel in seeking to withdraw it before sentence was imposed on him. The district court denied…
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