McGaughey v. U.S., 78-1299
| Decision Date | 11 April 1979 |
| Docket Number | No. 78-1299,78-1299 |
| Citation | 596 F.2d 796 |
| Parties | Donald Eugene McGAUGHEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
Ronald L. Hall, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant; David R. Freeman, Federal Public Defender, Kansas City, Mo., on brief.
J. Whitfield Moody, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee; Ronald S. Reed, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Frederick O. Griffin, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., on brief.
Joseph A. Barry, Gen. Counsel, and David C. Shipman, Atty., U. S. Parole Commission, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae, U. S. Parole Commission.
Donald Eugene McGaughey, pro se.
Before BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and BOGUE, District Judge. *
Donald Eugene McGaughey appeals from the dismissal of his petition to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1976). McGaughey contends that the action of the district court in revoking probation on one of four concurrent sentences of probation operated to revoke probation on all of those sentences. Therefore, argues McGaughey, the district court acted improperly in subsequently revoking probation on the other three probationary terms and imposing a prison term upon McGaughey. The district court 1 rejected this contention. McGaughey v. United States, 467 F.Supp. 1 (W.D.Mo. 1978). We affirm.
We briefly relate the background. In September 1969, McGaughey entered guilty pleas in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska to indictments charging him with multiple counts of forgery, conspiracy, and uttering false government securities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 495, 2314. The court sentenced McGaughey to concurrent five-year terms of imprisonment on several counts. On the four counts material here, the court imposed separate sentences of five years' probation, to be served concurrently following McGaughey's release from imprisonment under the other sentences already mentioned.
On December 1, 1972, upon his release from imprisonment, McGaughey began serving his four concurrent five-year terms of probation. In early 1975, the district court (Western District of Missouri) accepted a transfer of jurisdiction from the District of Nebraska over the four cases in which McGaughey had received probation. In January 1976, McGaughey was convicted in state court of conduct violating his federal probation conditions. On the basis of that conduct and certain other allegations, the United States moved in June 1976 to revoke McGaughey's probation on all four probationary terms.
On June 4, 1976, McGaughey appeared before the district court and admitted his violation of probation. The court revoked probation on one of the four concurrent probationary terms and sentenced McGaughey to 180 days' confinement (later reduced to 98 days). However, the district court did not revoke McGaughey's probation on the other three sentences.
Subsequent to his release from this 1976 confinement, McGaughey committed...
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