Billy Wayne Sinclair v. State of Louisiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the writ of error co-ram nobis is not available in federal court to attack state criminal judgments”
• stating that is well settled that the writ of error coram nobis is not available in federal court to attack state criminal judgments”
• stating that “[i]t is well settled that the writ of error coram nobis is not available in federal court to attack state criminal judgments”
• stating that a “writ of error coram nobis can only issue to aid the jurisdiction of the court in which the conviction was had”
• finding no jurisdiction to issue writ where federal court did not impose sentence
• “It is well settled that 21 the writ of error coram nobis is not available in federal court to attack state 22 criminal judgments.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).