UNITED STATES v. OLDS

No. 18232.

426 F.2d 562 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner, v. Richard Alfansa OLDS, Jr., Respondent, Honorable Herbert P. Sorg, Nominal Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Fenig, Criminal Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Vincent M. Casey, Pittsburgh, Pa., for respondent.

Before SEITZ and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges, and LATCHUM, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

In this petition for a writ of mandamus the Government seeks to compel United States District Judge Herbert P. Sorg to set aside an order reducing the sentence of a federal prisoner entered fifteen months after that sentence was imposed.

Respondent Richard Olds, Jr. was convicted on October 26, 1967 of the robbery of a federally insured bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). He was twenty-one years...

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