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440 F.2d 1327

Docket No. 31069.

Erwin v. United States

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided March 30, 1971.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1971-03-30

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1971

6 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Kimbrough v. Beto · United States v. Woodall · Grant v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1971-03-30

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¶1*1328Travis Erwin, pro se.

¶2Seagal V. Wheatley, U. S. Atty., Jeremiah Handy, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

¶3Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM:

¶5Travis Erwin has taken this appeal from the district court’s denial of his motion to vacate federal judgment of conviction and sentence, 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We affirm.1

¶6The appellant seeks relief on grounds that he was misled as to the maximum sentence imposable under counts of his indictment alleging violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, subsections (a) and (b), and conspiracy to commit bank burglary in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. He pled guilty to the § 371 and § 2113(b) counts; and the more serious § 2113(a) count was dismissed on motion of the government. The record does not conclusively show whether the appellant was in fact unaware of the original maximum imposable prison sentence, which was 25 years rather than 35 years as Erwin avers he thought it was. The district court denied relief on grounds that the appellant’s decision to plead guilty resulted from a co-conspirator's having given heavily damaging testimony against him at the start of his trial; that Erwin conferred at length with his counsel before pleading guilty; and that the United States Attorney correctly advised Erwin of the maximum prison terms for the counts on which he pled guilty. We agree that the record supports this finding.

¶7Moreover, this court en banc recently overruled the two principal cases on which appellant relies, Stephen v. United States, 5th Cir. 1970, 426 F.2d 257, and Grant v. United States, 5th Cir. 1970, 424 F.2d 273. United States v. *1329Woodall, 5th Cir. 1971, 438 F.2d 1317 [February 24, 1971]. The order of the district court is therefore due to be affirmed.

¶8Affirmed.

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