OUELLETTE v. U.S.

No. 88-1367.

862 F.2d 371 (1988)

John James OUELLETTE, Petitioner, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Solender, Yale Law Student, New Haven, Conn., with whom John L. Pottenger, Jr., Stephen Wizner, Shelley Geballe, Mary A. McCarthy, Robert A. Solomon and Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization were on brief for petitioner, appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., and Joseph H. Groff, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., were on brief for respondent, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

John James Ouellette ("petitioner") appeals from an order entered February 11, 1988 in the District of Maine, Gene Carter, District Judge, denying without a hearing petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1982) to vacate his conviction and sentence on the ground that his guilty plea was involuntary due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Petitioner asserts that counsel had misrepresented to him that, by pleading guilty...

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