Legal Opinion
Duane A. Verdon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 8, 1961No. 16828PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in forma pauperis from a trial court’s order denying a petition, filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate a sentence.
The petitioner, Duane A. Verdón, in August 1960 was serving a 5-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Sandstone, Minnesota. The sentence had been imposed in 1958 by the United States District Court for the District of Kansas upon Verdon’s conviction of a Dyer Act violation. On August 3, while on a work detail, Verdón disappeared. He was arrested near Walker, Minnesota, on August 19 and was returned two days later to…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Von Moltke v. GilliesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Friedman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1953
- Volney Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1955
- Snell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1949
- Stidham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1948
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Sydney B. Kadwell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- John E. Kress v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- David Frank Spanbauer v. John C. Burke, Warden, Wisconsin State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1966
- State v. HayesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
- State v. StidhamSupreme Court of Missouri · 1970
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