United States v. Peter Di Palermo

Having been convicted in 1949 on three counts of a counterfeiting charge, see United States v. Farina, 2 Cir., 184 F.2d 18, certiorari denied 340 U.S. 875, 71 S.Ct. 121, 95 L.Ed. 636, rehearing denied 341 U.S. 928, 71 S.Ct. 795, 95 L.Ed. 1359, and 2 Cir., 193 F.2d 436, defendant applied in 1954 for a new trial under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, claiming that he had been deprived of his constitutional rights, under the Sixth Amendment, to counsel and to confrontation. He asserted that, prior to the trial, he had an attack of encephalitis or sleeping sickness, and that, at the time of the hearings in this…