Nolan v. United States

*257 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION ON MOTION TO VACATE SENTENCE PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 2255

JUDITH GAIL DEIN, United States Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On May 10, 2007, the defendant/petitioner, Paul Nolan, pled guilty to two counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). On August 18, 2007, he was sentenced to 170 months of incarceration, a sentence which he is presently serving. His court-appointed appellate counsel filed a timely brief with the First Circuit pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), certifying that, after a review of the…