Legal Opinion
Cesar Vega Pelegrina v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 25, 1979No. 78-1255PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
Vega Pelegrina appeals from the district court’s denial of his post-conviction motion made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Now on parole, he seeks relief from the conviction of himself and a co-defendant, Jose Rodriguez Caban, on two narcotics counts — a conviction we affirmed by unpublished opinion, United States v. Pelegrina, 539 F.2d 702 (1st Cir. 1976). Movant contends he should be granted a new trial (1) because of newly discovered evidence and (2) because the lower court should have considered the results of two polygraph tests when ruling upon the present §…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- United States v. Joseph J. C. Dicarlo and Ronald C. MacKenzieCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1978
- Johnson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1929
- Ralph Melvin Johnson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961
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3Cited by42 opinions
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