Charles Dallas Baker v. United States

ALBERT Y. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

A motion in 1966 under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate Charles Dallas Baker’s sentence of 14 years imprisonment on his plea of guilty in the District Court in 1963, to armed bank robbery, was denied and he appeals.

His 1966 attack was premised on the trial court’s refusal to order disclosure before sentence of the contents of the probation officer’s presentence report. The contention was that the report was misleading with respect to Baker’s prior behavior, the mistake accounting for a more severe punishment than would have been ordered had the report been accurate.…