Legal Opinion
Diego Gonzalez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 24, 1956No. 5056PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment re-sentencing the defendant, Gonzalez, for violations of the narcotics laws. In a previous appeal, reported at 1 Cir., 1955, 224 F.2d 431, we reversed an order of the court below refusing to grant a motion made by Gonzalez pursuant to Sec-' tion 2255, Title 28 U.S.C., to correct a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him as a second offender. It is enough to state here that we held Gonzalez could not be sentenced as a second offender. In a concurring opinion, Chief Judge Magruder suggested that our decision might prove a “hollow gesture”…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Oddo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
- Diego Gonzalez v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1955
- Huff v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Wallace v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1949
- Mercado v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1950
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Thomas E. Blunt v. United States of America, Thomas E. Blunt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Rosenbloom v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Walter C. Lohman, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1956
- Diego Gonzalez v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1957
- United States v. GreenDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1959
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