United States v. Rivera, 325
| Decision Date | 01 July 1955 |
| Docket Number | Docket 23482.,No. 325,325 |
| Citation | 224 F.2d 88 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Patino RIVERA, Defendant-Appellant. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
Thomas M. Debevoise II, Asst. U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of N. Y., New York City (J. Edward Lumbard, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.
William Richter, New York City, for defendant-appellant.
Before CLARK, Chief Judge, CHASE, Circuit Judge, and RYAN, District Judge.
Defendant's record clearly indicates that he has been three times convicted of violation of the narcotics laws. On April 29, 1947, he pleaded guilty to three counts of indictment C125-219; he was sentenced on the third count to ten months in jail to be served concurrently with a state sentence, and on the first two counts to a one-year probation after the service of the prison term. On March 10, 1949, he pleaded guilty to violation of parole on indictment C125-219 and to a new indictment, C128-379, and received concurrent terms of a year and a day on each of these. On January 11, 1954, appellant pleaded guilty to two counts of yet another indictment, C142-280, and on February 23, 1954, he was sentenced to the mandatory ten-year term now complained of. See 21 U.S.C. § 174. Each of these indictments charged violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 173 and 174. Each of the convictions was valid, despite a belated attempt now made to question the adequacy of assigned counsel in the second indictment.
The only substantial issue on this appeal from denial of his several motions to vacate his sentence and withdraw his plea of guilt concerns the effect to be given to an order made by Judge Dimock on February 23, 1954. Believing it to be illegal for a federal sentence to run concurrently with a state sentence, Judge Dimock corrected the sentence on indictment C125-219 to have the federal sentence of ten months run consecutively to the state term. In order to protect the defendant from belatedly having to serve this sentence, Judge Dimock suspended it and ordered ten months of probation to run concurrently with the one-year probation originally imposed under counts one and two of the same indictment.
This adjustment gave rise to the problem now before us. The defendant claims that if the ten months' prison term is erased, he was misinformed in pleading guilty to the violation of probation, since the events with which he was charged would have...
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