Legal Opinion
Kenneth Blankenship v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 6, 1998No. 97-2299PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Kenneth Blankenship appeals the district court’s summary denial of his postconviction motion attacking his sentence on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. See 28 *337U.S.C. § 2255 (1996). He argues that the district court erred by denying his motion without a hearing and by not providing any case-specific reasons for the summary disposition. We affirm.
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In 1992, Blankenship entered a conditional guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1988), and a panel of this court affirmed his conviction. See United States v.…
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