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- Title: United States v. Lagrone
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 19, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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After entering a plea of guilty, Troy Mitchell Lagrone was sentenced to a term of seventeen and one-half years for unarmed bank robbery. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113(a). He appeals the denial of his motion to vacate the sentence, in which he claimed (1) ineffective assistance of counsel; (2) failure of the trial court to comply with Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 in determining whether his guilty plea was voluntary; (3) failure of the trial court to comply with the requirement of the Federal Youth Corrections Act (FYCA), 18 U.S.C.A. § 5010(d), that the ""no-benefit"" finding required before a defendant under 22 years of age is sentenced as an adult be based on the individualized record of the defendant rather than on the nature of the offense committed; and (4) failure of the trial court to permit the defendant to speak about errors in the presentence report before he was sentenced. We affirm. In cases where the files and records make manifest the lack of merit of a Section 2255 claim, the trial court is not required to hold an evidentiary hearing. United States v. Hughes, 635 F.2d 449, 451 (5th Cir.1981). The record in this case indicates the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to hold an evidentiary hearing on any of Lagrone's claims.