FIELDS v. UNITED STATES

No. 199, Docket 34421.

438 F.2d 205 (1971)

Joseph FIELDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern District of New York (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Ross Sandler, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern District of New York, on the brief), for appellee.

Zachary Shimer, New York City, for appellant.

Before SMITH, FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and LEVET, District Judge.


LEVET, District Judge:

This is an appeal by Joseph Fields from an order entered November 21, 1969 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Murphy, D. J.) denying without a hearing a petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to set aside a plea of guilty and vacate a judgment of conviction based thereon.

Fields was arrested on a bench warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on an...

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