Strickland v. United States

MEREDITH, District Judge.

This matter is pending before the Court following a hearing on petitioner’s Motion to Vacate a Sentence of three years imposed on April 10, 1958, by the late Judge Moore on petitioner’s plea of guilty to a three-count information. Sentence of three years was likewise imposed on each of the other two counts, each to run consecutively and not concurrently, for a total of 9 years. The late Judge Moore granted the petitioner a hearing under Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for the purpose of determining whether Counts 2 and 3 of the information…