Sanders v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

THOMSEN, District Judge.

Petitioner, who now uses the name H. Alton Sanders and was formerly known as Hilliard Sanders, was found guilty of armed robbery by a jury in this court in 1942, and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment by Judge Chesnut. His conviction was affirmed. Sanders v. United States, 127 F.2d 647 (4 Cir. 1942), cert. den. 317 U.S. 626, 63 S.Ct. 37, 87 L.Ed. 506 (1942).

Thereafter, he filed a number of post-conviction motions; relief was denied on all of them, by Judge Chesnut or by me, and in some cases by the Fourth Circuit on appeal. See Sanders v.…