HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.
John Bernard Doyle, serving a life sentence in a federal prison for second degree murder, appeals from a district court order denying his motion, made under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate the sentence. Doyle argues that the district court erred in denying his motion without granting him an evidentiary hearing.
Under section 2255, an evidentiary hearing must be granted unless the motion and files and records of the case conclusively...
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