Stephens v. United States

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

This case is before the Court on Petitioner’s Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence Under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255[85].

I. Background

In September 1991, law enforcement agents arrested William Cross, Jr., on narcotics charges. (Trial Tr. Vol. 4, at 39-40.) Cross agreed to cooperate with Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) agents and began supplying them with information regarding Petitioner, whom Cross identified as a cocaine trafficker. (Id. at 39-42.) During the next three months, Cross notified DEA agents before he met with Petitioner, allowing DEA…