United States v. Jerry Clarence Fraser

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Jerry Clarence Fraser was accused of robbing the Commercial National Bank, Airport Branch, in Little Rock, Arkansas, with an unloaded gun. He pleaded guilty to count I of the indictment, which charged bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) (1976); the United States dismissed the remaining count, which charged armed bank robbery under § 2113(d); and the District Court 1 sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment. Later, on March 23, 1981, Fraser filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1976) to vacate his sentence, alleging that the consequences of his guilty plea had not…