Martin T. Goodwin v. United States

Defendant, aged 18 in 1970, pleaded guilty to violation of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C. § 23.12 (1976), and was sentenced by the late District Judge Swinford to a year and a day in federal prison. The Government concedes that the District Judge did not specifically find that “the youth offender will not derive benefit” from the procedures set out in the Youth Corrections Act, 18 U.S.C. § 5010(d). The defendant served his term, and has moved to vacate his sentence on the grounds that the youth offender option was not specifically considered by the District Judge as required by Dorszynski v. United…