Harold Kaufman v. United States

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This is an action under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate Kaufman’s sentence and judgment of conviction resulting from a trial in 1964 in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. In that trial, Kaufman was convicted of armed robbery of a federally insured savings and loan association. His only defense was insanity, and on appeal, this Court affirmed. Kaufman v. United States, 350 F.2d 408 (8th Cir. 1965), cert, denied, 383 U.S. 951, 86 S.Ct. 1211, 16 L.Ed.2d 212 (1966). In June of 1966, Kaufman filed a motion to vacate his sentence under § 2255, and the…