United States v. Raymond L. Scharf

HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

Raymond L. Scharf, hereinafter called defendant, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri 1 denying without an evidentiary hearing a post-sentence motion for relief from a judgment of conviction following the defendant’s plea of guilty to a charge of having conspired with one Bonnie Morley to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1951, commonly referred to as the Hobbs Act. The motion was filed pursuant to Fed.R. Crim.P. 32(d) which provides in part that where a sentence has been imposed following a plea of guilty, the court may for…