Legal Opinion
King v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 23, 2010No. 09-2212PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Before the court is Johnnie King’s appeal from the denial of his motion to vacate his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. After King pled guilty to one count of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, he was sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 to a term of 196 months. King’s direct appeal was dismissed on the basis of an appeal waiver in his plea agreement. That agreement preserved the right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in a collateral proceeding, however.
King brought this § 2255 petition pro se, raising a…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- United States v. WiltbergerSupreme Court of the United States · 1820
- United States v. John Robert AndisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2003
- Glover v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
- United States v. GrandersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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3Cited by38 opinions
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