Ruch O. Nichols v. United States

With the invaluable assistance of court-appointed counsel, much of the confusion of this confused and confusing record— prepared as it was by petitioner without legal assistance — has been eliminated. It is now quite clear that the § 2255 motion does set forth with requisite positiveness a factual statement that petitioner’s pleas of guilty were brought about by promises that his total sentence for all counts and crimes would be five years, rather than the ten year cumulative sentence imposed. No hearing was held to ascertain the truth as to such contentions. Nor was there as to the…