Smallwood v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARPER, District Judge.

The petitioner has filed a motion under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 to vacate his sentence and set aside judgment entered against him. The petitioner requests an immediate evidentiary hearing.

Petitioner was convicted in 1969 by a jury on fifteen counts (seven counts of security fraud, seven counts of mail fraud, and one count of an unregistered security), and sentenced to a term of thirty-five years. This conviction was affirmed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Smallwood, 443 F.2d 535, and certiorari was denied.

Petitioner sets forth…