A. A. v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party must show cause and prejudice to raise an objection not argued on direct appeal in a 2255 motion (citing Frady)
• finding that the Court has “long and consistently affirmed that a collateral challenge may not do service for an appeal”
• explaining that it is not sufficient to show that the errors at trial created a mere “possibility of prejudice”
• finding that “having shown cause, petitioners must show actual prejudice to excuse their default”
• noting that relief under Federal Rule of Criminal Pro- cedure 52 requires “error so ‘plain’ the trial judge and prose- cutor were derelict in countenancing it, even absent the de- fendant’s timely assistance in detecting it”
• affirming \the well-settled principle that to obtain collateral relief a prisoner must clear a significantly higher hurdle than would exist on direct appeal\

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