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BAILEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 11781.

385 A.2d 32 (1978)

Fred BAILEY, a/k/a Fred Bailey, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 5, 1978.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Percy H. Russell, Jr., and Eugene M. Propper, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal, from the denial of a third attempt in the trial court to vacate a 1972 life sentence imposed under a first-degree murder guilty plea,1 presents the question whether the trial court, after a hearing, erred in concluding that the plea was not influenced in a significant way by assumedly erroneous advice of counsel that a plea and prompt sentencing before appellant's twenty-second birthday were necessary...

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