Franklin Delano Legg v. United States

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

We deal again with a federal prisoner convicted on a plea of guilty who now seeks relief upon the claim that such plea was “coerced and induced” by promises of his privately retained counsel that the case was “fixed” so that appellant would be given probation. Appellant was convicted upon his plea of guilty to theft of United States mail. He had had two felony convictions before the mail stealing enterprise here involved and was then on parole from the Ohio penitentiary. He was given a prison sentence following his plea of guilty, but at that time he expressed no…