United States v. Thomas Joseph Hermann

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s motion to vacate the sentence for armed bank robbery imposed upon him by Chief Judge Clarie of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Connecticut. When appellant appeared for sentencing on September 27, 1971, his counsel requested Judge Clarie to “consider very seriously” the same eleven-year sentence that appellant’s accomplice had already received. Although Judge Clarie had in mind a longer term, he did sentence appellant to eleven years. Appellant now advances several reasons why this sentence…