Steve O. Casias v. United States

This appeal is from an order denying a petition for a writ of coram nobis. Petitioner Casias is presently confined in the Colorado State Penitentiary, serving a sentence imposed in 1963. See Casias v. People, 160 Colo. 152, 415 P.2d 344 (1966), cert. denied, 385. U.S. 979, 87 S.Ct. 523, 17 L.Ed.2d 441.

In 1961, Casias was convicted of a federal narcotics offense, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174, and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. This court affirmed that conviction on February 28, 1963. Casias v. United States, 315 F.2d 614 (10th Cir. 1963). He had been free on bond pending appeal…