VILLARREAL v. UNITED STATES

No. 74-1811.

508 F.2d 1132 (1974)

Joe VILLARREAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 9, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Thomas Pollack, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner-appellant.

Leslie E. Osborne, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent-appellee.

Before CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge, BALDWIN, Judge, and WALLACE, Circuit Judge.


OPINION

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:

In 1965, Villarreal pleaded guilty to two counts of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a), (d), and was sentenced to consecutive prison terms of ten and twenty years. Starting in 1967, he filed petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate these sentences on the grounds that he had lacked understanding of the consequence of his plea and that the plea had been induced by representations from his...

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