Legal Opinion
Vietchau Nguyen v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 19, 1997No. 96-1960PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota 2 denied the appellant Nguyen’s motion to vacate his conviction and sentence following his guilty plea. Nguyen contended that his plea was involuntary. The district court denied the motion without an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.
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A. Nguyen, born and raised in Vietnam, came to the United States where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota and a Doctorate in engineering at Princeton University. He became president of an environmental consulting firm…
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