Legal Opinion
Arnaldo Hernandez-Hernandez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 31, 1990No. 89-1882PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Hernandez-Hernandez appeals from the denial of his motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to set aside his guilty plea and vacate his 99-year sentence for the crime of conspiring to violate the rights of a federal witness. Appellant, who originally had pleaded not guilty, argues that the district judge who accepted his guilty plea and later denied his motion to vacate it erred in (1) failing to hold a competency hearing sua sponte at his change of plea hearing, thereby depriving him of his due process rights; (2) failing to hold an eviden-tiary hearing to…
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