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Castro v. U.S., No. 02-6683 (U.S. Supreme Court) (540 U.S. 375; 124 S.Ct. 786) (December 15, 2003) (Justice Breyer)

Loaded on Dec. 19, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists November 24, 2003
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Here the Court held that if a district court “recharacterizes” an inmate’s pro se filing into a § 2255 motion, without warning him that one likely effect of such a recharacterization will be to limit future appeals, it cannot be deemed a "first" § 2255.

This is an interesting habeas ...

 

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