U.S. v. RESSLER

No. 96-11016 Summary Calendar.

122 F.3d 285 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Larry Allen RESSLER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tanya K. Pierce, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lubbock, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Larry Allen Ressler, El Reno, OK, pro se.

Before JONES, DeMOSS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On March 7, 1996, Ressler, federal prisoner No. 22047-077, filed the instant 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, which was his second. Ressler argued that his two prior convictions for "house breaking" were not burglaries and thus not "crimes of violence" as defined under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). He contended that he had not presented this claim earlier because his counsel had not investigated the nature of the prior convictions and he did not learn of the statutory...

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