Where a defendant challenged the denial of his third successive federal habeas corpus petition from his state law murder conviction, the district court properly found that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the petition because the defendant failed to establish by ...

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Where an appellant, who achieved a reversal of convictions for federal gambling and money-laundering, petitioned for a second time for a certificate of innocence, the second petition is barred by the doctrine of res judicata, so the judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: Certificate of Innocence Res Judicata Successive Petition

Where a defendant in a drug-distribution case sought habeas relief, arguing that a second amended judgment was a substantive change and a new judgment, the judgment is affirmed because a correction in the second amended judgment did not create a ...

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