Thomas Dewey Lambert v. United States

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, a convicted felon, pleaded guilty to receiving a firearm transported in interstate commerce, 18 U.S.C. § 922(h). The district court denied his § 2255 petition and we affirm.

We have withheld decision in this case pending decision in U. S. v. Timmreck, - U.S. -, 99 S.Ct. 2085, 2087, 60 L.Ed.2d 634, which involved a collateral attack on a conviction based upon failure to comply with Rule 11. In Timmreck the Court drew a distinction between a “technical violation” of Rule 11 and an error resulting in a “complete miscarriage of justice” or in a proceeding…