Gurney W. Moody v. United States

This appeal from a judgment denying petitioner’s 1977 motion to vacate sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was submitted to the court on the district court record and briefs of the parties. The petitioner was sentenced in 1972 to two five-year terms to run consecutively upon his conviction both of possessing and selling counterfeit obligations, violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 472 and 473 respectively. These convictions were affirmed on appeal.

In his present appeal petitioner argues that he was exposed to double jeopardy by being sentenced to consecutive terms for offenses arising out of a single…