Franklin Eugene Watts, Jr. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that, in the case at hand, the issue of credibility could be conclusively decided on the basis of documentary testimony and evidence in the record
• finding that, in the case at hand, the issue of credibility could be conclusively decided on the basis of documentary testimony and evidence in the record
• suggesting that lack of need to question petitioner may form basis for denying full evidentiary hearing
• suggesting that lack of need to question petitioner may form basis for denying full evidentiary hearing
• evidentiary hearing usually required if motion states claim based on matters outside the record
• “Section 2255 requires only that the judge give the prisoner’s claim ‘careful consideration and plenary processing, including full opportunity for presentation of the relevant facts.’”

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