Lee Andrew Whitlock v. United States

MATTHES, Chief Judge.

Appellant was found guilty of violating certain sections of the federal statutes relating to narcotic drugs. The judgment of conviction was affirmed in United States v. Whitlock, 442 F.2d 1061 (8th Cir. 1971), where the statutes violated by appellant are set out. Seeking to set aside and vacate the judgment and sentence, appellant filed a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Appellant asserted that he had been denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, in that the lawyer who represented him in his second trial, Lewis E. Pierce, had also…