Legal Opinion
United States v. Tchibassa
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 21, 2009No. Cr. 91-560-3 (TFH)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
THOMAS F. HOGAN, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is defendant Artur Tchibassa’s pro se Motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence. 1 As explained below, the Court finds no merit in Tchibassa’s claims. Accordingly, a hearing is unnecessary and the Court will deny the motion.
BACKGROUND
Tchibassa was indicted in 1991 for one count of hostage-taking and one count of conspiracy to commit hostage-taking related to events in his native Angola. Arrest ed in 2002 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tchibassa went to trial in September 2003,…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- United States v. BookerSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by5 opinions
- United States v. PalmerDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2012
- Hodge v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2010
- United States v. TchibassaDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2011
- United States v. AguiarDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2015
- United States v. PalmerDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2015