FRIEDMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 78-1663.

588 F.2d 1010 (1979)

Leroy FRIEDMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel W. Todd, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner-appellant.

Jack V. Eskenazi, U. S. Atty., C. Wesley G. Currier, R. Jerome Sanford, Asst. U. S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, TUTTLE and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

As is only natural where a supplicant has little to lose but everything to gain, post-conviction relief motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 are as often as not marked by the deceit born of self-interest as by substantial claims of injustice. We sympathize with the problems that our District Courts encounter in attempting to separate the wheat from the chaff in dealing with the daily flow of such motions. Nonetheless, the statute commands the District Courts...

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