UNITED STATES v. SHEPPARD

No. 77-2370.

588 F.2d 917 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Earl SHEPPARD, Jr., a/k/a Tank, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Gold, Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

Glenn L. Cook, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Russell T. Baker, Jr., U. S. Atty. and Neal M. Janey, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

By this appeal, the defendant/appellant challenges on a number of grounds both the voluntariness of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge of distributing heroin in violation of § 846, 21 U.S.C., and the sentence imposed. We find no merit in any of his complaints, save his claim that he was not adequately informed of the maximum special parole term which might be imposed as a part of his sentence under his plea.

The district judge, in conducting...

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