United States v. Sanford

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Demetrias Sanford was convicted and sentenced in district court on three drug trafficking charges. After his conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal and the Supreme Court denied certio-rari review, defendant filed a § 2255 petition in district court seeking relief on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel. The district court vacated the original conviction and sentence because the district court overlooked expressly accepting Sanford’s guilty plea. The court then dismissed the § 2255 petition as moot. Thereafter, the district court…