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· 2/6/1987

Charles Poor Thunder v. United States

Citations

  • 810 F.2d 817
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 1897

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that the district court did not err in crafting the defendant’s sentence when it accepted as true that the defendant had killed the victim because that fact was essential to the defendant’s uncontested first-degree manslaughter conviction
  • remanding for attachment of findings to PSR, but not for resentencing
  • collateral attack should not be entertained if defendant failed for no good reason to use another available avenue of relief
  • collateral attack should not be entertained if defendant failed for no good reason to use another available avenue of relief
  • absent adequate reason or excuse a section 2255 motion not substitute for direct appeal
  • trial court need not correct every objectionable nuance in PSI

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Judges: Arnold, Henley, Nichol

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