Harold Pitts Roe v. United States

The appeal taken by appellant from the denial of his motion under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, for a vacation of his sentence will be permitted to be docketed without payment of fee, and it will thereupon be dismissed as being frivolous.

Appellant, with counsel appointed to represent him, was accorded a full hearing before the trial court upon the charges made in his motion that his pleas of guilty were obtained by coercion; that he was physically mistreated by the arresting officers, and was beaten, abused, threatened, and coerced by various jailers, United States Marshals, and FBI Agents; and that…