George Ryan v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the reason a litigant comes to its decision to not assert an argument “is irrelevant, and a mistake in reaching a decision to withhold a known defense does not make that decision less a waiver”
• applying Wood to government’s request to apply an incorrect, harmless-error review to collateral attack on jury instruction
• “A collateral attack under § 2241, § 2254, or § 2255 con- tests only custody, however, and not fines or special assess- ments.”
• “A collateral attack under § 2241 . . . contests only custody, . . . not fines.”
• “A collateral attack under § 2241, § 2254, or § 2255 contests only custody, however, and not fines or special assessments.”
• “... courts are free to pretermit decision about convictions producing concurrent sentences, when the extra convictions do not have cumulative effects.”

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