United States Fourth Circuit

When, as here, convictions and sentences arise from a multicount indictment, a single judgment of conviction results, and convictions and sentences on all counts become a final judgment of conviction at the same time for purposes of 28 U.S.C.A. section 2255 and its one-year statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2002
• Decided 05/22/2002
• Published 05/22/2002

Judges

• Before MOTZ, Circuit Judge, WALTER K. STAPLETON, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation, and W. CRAIG BROADWATER, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Kendal Aylor Sibley, Student, University of Virginia School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Defendant-Appellant.  John Thomas Lynch, Jr., Special Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Plaintiff-Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Neal L. Walters, University of Virginia School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Defendant-Appellant.  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia;  Nicholas Stephan Altimari, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Plaintiff-Appellee.