United States v. Sobell

McGOHEY, District Judge.

The defendant Sobell moves for the sixth time under section 2255 of Title 28 U.S.C. to set aside his conviction and the sentence imposed thereon in 1951 for conspiring, during the years 1944 to *2261950, to violate the Espionage Act.1 He also moves in the alternative, for a correction of the sentence under Federal Criminal Rule 35.

In one form or another, this case has had the attention of the judges of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on more than eight separate occasions, beginning with the original appeals ten years ago when that court, because of the…