Carvell v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating it is highly desirable that § 2255 motions “be passed on by the judge who is familiar with the facts and circumstances surrounding the trial, and is consequently not likely to be misled by false allegations as to what occurred.”
• stating it is highly desirable that § 2255 motions “be passed on by the judge who is familiar with the facts and circumstances surrounding the trial, and is consequently not likely to be misled by false allegations as to what occurred.”
• purpose of § 2255 “to avoid the unseemly practice of having attacks upon the regularity of trials made before another judge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).