Frank E. Bachner v. United States of America, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Frank E. Bachner

TONE, Circuit Judge.

These appeals challenging two guilty pleas and sentences thereon arise, like many others,1 from omissions by trial judges to advise a defendant at a hearing on a plea of guilty of special provi*591sions of the federal narcotics laws relating to sentencing, the old law’s parole ineligibility provision in one case and the new law’s requirement of a mandatory parole term in the other. In each case the District Court held the plea valid under all the circumstances, notwithstanding the omission. We affirm these judgments.

Before May 1, 1971, federal narcotics offenders were subject…