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RUIZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 15825.

365 F.2d 500 (1966)

Santos Valentin RUIZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Loud, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., for appellant.

Almeric L. Christian, U. S. Atty., John E. Stout, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., for appellee.

Before MARIS, SMITH and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Santos Valentin Ruiz, a prisoner in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, from an order of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, denying the prisoner's petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the correction of his sentence of life imprisonment by the substitution of a sentence for a term of years. The prisoner had been charged in the Virgin Islands with murder in the first degree...

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