Legal Opinion
Frederick Harold Brokaw v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1966No. 10643PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Appellant’s application for post conviction relief under 28 U.S.C.A. Sec. 2255 was denied by the district court, and he now appeals. He was convicted, in 1963, of a violation of 18 U.S.C.A. Sec. 1343 (fraud by wire statute), upon his plea of guilty, and sentenced to five years, the maximum permitted under 18 U.S.C.A. Sec. 4208(a) (2). This conviction was the latest in more than fifty years of repeated criminal violations in the life of this ill, seventy-ffv e-year-old appellant.
The conviction is attacked because the district judge failed to comply with Rule 11,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- United States v. William Joseph MartellCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- George C. Finn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1958
- United States v. Mark Harding ChunnCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- Carl Walter Aiken v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
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3Cited by20 opinions
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Russell T. Halliday v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1967
- State v. WhitselSupreme Court of Iowa · 1983
- James Edward Kennedy v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1968
- James Milton Waddy and James Barrow Ransom v. Henry Heer, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1967
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