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COLEMAN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 17176, 17177.

334 F.2d 558 (1964)

William C. COLEMAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert L. Weinberg, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Edward Bennett Williams, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Barry Sidman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER, FAHY, WASHINGTON, DANAHER, BASTIAN, BURGER, WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

DANAHER, Circuit Judge, with whom BAZELON, Chief Judge, and FAHY, WASHINGTON and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, join:

We are here concerned with two appeals from post-conviction orders. In No. 17176, the appellant on May 17, 1962 filed his notice of appeal from the District Court's order of May 8, 1962, which denied appellant's March 29, 1962 motion to reduce his death sentence to life imprisonment. The motion was based upon Public Law 87-423, infra note 8, and Rule...

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