Legal Opinion
Bistram v. United States
District Court, D. North Dakota
Decided February 8, 1960No. Cr. 7885PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONALD N. DAVIES, District Judge.
The matter now before the Court illustrates the constant and vexing problems arising out of the abuse of 28 U.S. C.A. § 2255, by criminals lawfully imprisoned who, by repeated and successive motions brought under that Section, impose an unnecessarily onerous burden upon an already overburdened federal judiciary.
Here for the third time the petitioner Carl Harvey Bistram seeks to have his. sentence vacated and set aside, this time upon the grounds that he was mentally incompetent at the time he entered his plea of guilty and was sentenced in this court some…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Salinger v. LoiselSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Bishop v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- V. P. Serodino, Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Barrett v. Hunter, Warden. Rutledge v. Hunter, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1950
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- James P. Taylor v. United States of America, James Peter Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
- Dykes v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1964
- Carl Harvey Bistram and Arthur Earl Bistram v. People of the State of Minnesota, County of HennepinCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1964
- Carl Harvey Bistram v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
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