Daniel Lee Sappington v. United States

The petitioner is before us on a motion filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. He seeks to vacate and set aside a five year sentence. The indictment, in the Southern District of Florida, charged violation of 18 U.S.C. 2314, interstate transportation of forged American Express Travelers Cheek. Pursuant to Rule 20, F.R.Cr.P., the case was transferred to the Eastern District of Missouri. There, according to petitioner, he was “tricked into entering” a guilty plea. The trickery arose, alleges petitioner, because the court, in its questioning of him prior to accepting his plea, did not explain the elements…