WRIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 78-2307.

624 F.2d 557 (1980)

Edward Lee WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe J. Feldman, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Robert J. Boitmann, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for respondent-appellee.

Before VANCE and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

Edward Lee Wright filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate his 1965 sentence for selling heroin after he was convicted in 1974 for more heroin sales and was sentenced as a second offender. The district court dismissed the motion. We affirm.

On October 23, 1964, Wright was indicted and charged with four counts of illegally selling heroin under the statutory predecessor of 21 U.S.C. §§ 825 and 828. At the arraignment on...

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