Legal Opinion
United States v. George J. Cottage
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 30, 2002No. 01-4221PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.
Defendant, George J. Cottage, filed this appeal from the district court’s order of October 19, 2001, which denied his motion for leave to file a supplemental petition to set aside his conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Defendant’s plea-based conviction was for distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The order appealed from was the last of several decisions denying relief, which defendant sought on the grounds that he had been entrapped by a government informant. After review of the record and arguments…
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