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416 F.2d 1255

Docket No. 149, Docket 33658.

Smith v. United States

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Sept. 18, 1969.

Decided Oct. 16, 1969.

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1969-10-16

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 2005

1 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on United States v. Angelet

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1969-10-16

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¶1*1256Samuel W. Gilman, New York City, for appellant.

¶2Arthur A. Munisteri, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, Paul B. Galvani, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before MOORE, HAYS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM:

¶5Oliver Smith appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denying without a hearing a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1964) to vacate his conviction.

¶6Appellant was convicted of violating 21 U.S.C. §§ 173, 174 (1964). The conviction and orders denying two motions for a new trial were affirmed from the bench by this court.

¶7On this appeal appellant contends that the Government failed to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (1964) by not turning over the “Daily Attendance and Expense Sheet” of the Government’s witness, Agent Frank Selvaggi.

¶8The “Daily Attendance and Expense Sheet” is used solely for office administration. It is not the type of material contemplated by Section 3500.

¶9Moreover the judge who originally convicted Smith, after a trial without a jury, denied Smith’s § 2255 application, thus holding, in effect, that the document in question would not have influenced his initial determination of guilt.

¶10Even if refusal to require production of the disputed document were in error it would be merely a defect in the trial correctable on appeal.

“Only when there has been a deprivation of rights so fundamental as to amount to a denial of a fair trial can the conviction and sentence be set aside under § 2255.” United States v. Angelet, 255 F.2d 383, 384 (2d Cir. 1958).

¶11Affirmed.

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