Legal Opinion
William Hope v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 15, 1995No. 18-3392PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
A federal district court jury convicted William Hope of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The district judge sen tenced Hope to thirty years imprisonment after finding that he had three prior violent felony convictions; we upheld Hope’s conviction and sentence on direct appeal. United States v. Hope, 906 F.2d 254 (7th Cir.1990), cert. denied, 499 U.S. 983, 111 S.Ct. 1640, 113 L.Ed.2d 735 (1991).
Hope then attacked his sentence collaterally by way of a Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. He alleged in his motion that…
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