United States v. Rice

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PRATT, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Before the Court is Defendant Darwin G. Rice’s Motion to Vacate and Set Aside Jury Verdict and Request for Hearing in Nature of Coram Nobis (Clerk’s No. 69). 1 In his motion, the Defendant requests that the Court issue the common law writ of coram nobis which, in effect, would vacate the jury verdict reached in this case and allow a new trial on the grounds that the Defendant, at trial, was served by ineffective counsel.

On October 6, 2004, the Defendant was found guilty by jury verdict of one count of making a false statement of…