Ian Paul Briscoe v. United States

This is an appeal from the District Court’s denial of motions to vacate sentences and set aside two housebreaking convictions. Briscoe, an alien, was arrested for vagrancy in Florida in 1964, and was brought back to the District of Columbia in connection with two housebreaking charges pending against him here. He pled guilty in both cases. In one case, the matter was, in appellant’s words, “pretty well open and shut.” But his subsequently entered plea in the other, Crim. No. 349-65, was motivated by his desire to have both these cases terminated by his deportation — as an alien twice…