Gerald C. Peterson v. United States

On January 10, 1968, Gerald D. Peterson was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of ten years, five years, and one year, respectively. 1 Following this court’s affirmance of the narcotics convictions underlying those sentences, Peterson v. United States, 405 F.2d 102 (8th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 938, 89 S.Ct. 2003, 23 L.Ed.2d 453 (1969), Peterson filed a motion, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, to vacate those convictions and sentences pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Peterson’s motion was based upon the allegation that prior constitutionally…