United States v. Vernon Klaire Coffman

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the order of the district court, 714 F.Supp. 478, denying defendant Vernon Coffman’s motion to correct sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2255. Coffman contends that the district court erred in failing either to dismiss the indictment for alleged violations of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers or to order an evidentiary hearing on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim. We affirm.

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Coffman was indicted by a federal grand jury in 1987 on two counts of making false written statements to a licensed firearms dealer in connection with the…