Robert Earl Pettigrew v. United States

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying Appellant’s motion to vacate sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Appellant entered a plea of guilty to one count of armed robbery and in January, 1969 was committed to the custody of the Attorney General for eighteen years. In his petition, Appellant alleged that he was coerced into pleading guilty by an F.B.I. agent who told him that unless he pleaded guilty he would be brought to trial for five separate bank robberies and that he would be put away for life. The petition further alleged that the District Court failed to comply…