Legal Opinion
John Doe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 3, 1995No. 92-3732PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
John Doe, 1 a prisoner at Marion federal penitentiary, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder (18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 and 1117) for his involvement in the murder of a fellow inmate. For his crime, Doe was given a nineteen-year sentence, to be served concurrently with his current sentence. Doe raised no objections to his guilty plea at sentencing, nor did he file a direct appeal. Instead, over two years later, Doe filed a motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging the voluntariness of his plea. He also claimed that the government had…
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