Legal Opinion
Robert Emanuel Sciberras v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 12, 1968No. 9876PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Sciberras, incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, brought this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 attacking the validity of one of two concurrent and coterminous sentences he received in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. He appeals from an order of that court dismissing the motion without a hearing.
Sciberras was tried and found guilty of a Dyer Act charge and received concurrent five-year sentences for that violation and for the violation of illegally possessing a selective service…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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