Potter v. United States

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge.

We have consolidated two pending applications for writs of error coram nobis separately filed by petitioners Potter and Cope, because both petitioners were Sentenced at the same time and both applications raise essentially the same’question of law. Petitioners question the validity of certain consecutively imposed sentences imposed on them by Judge Whittaker in cases transferred to this Court under Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure from other District Courts sitting in districts in which the offenses were committed.

On pleas of guilty, petitioner…