Ackerland v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting the federal rules do not provide for “a self-styled motion to reconsider”
• explaining a generic motion for reconsideration is commonly construed as either a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure “59(e) motion to alter or amend the judgment or as a Rule 60(b) motion for relief from judgment”
• our cases establish that otherwise valid waiver of appeal or postconviction rights does not prevent defendant from attacking illegal sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).