Williams v. United States

OPINION

LAYTON, District Judge.

Plaintiff, William Martin Williams, III, an inmate at the Lewisburg Penitentiary, has filed a complaint asking that his sentence and the underlying judgment of conviction be vacated and set aside. The jurisdiction of this Court is properly invoked pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The gravamen of the complaint is that the waiver of prosecution by indictment executed by the Plaintiff at the time of his arraignment on the charges which resulted in the instant conviction and sentence was defective in several regards. First, the Plaintiff contends that the waiver was not…