In Re: Billy Lampton

How courts have described this case

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• finding no new judgment where an order vacated the sentence and conviction of only one count in a multi-count conviction, leaving the sentences of the remaining counts undisturbed
• “The less fundamental change made to Lampton’s judgment of conviction is not enough to allow him to bypass AEDPA’s restrictions on piecemeal habeas litigation.”
• “The less fundamental change made to Lampton’s judgment of conviction is not enough to allow him to bypass AEDPA’s restrictions on piecemeal habeas litigation.” (footnote call number omitted)
• when one conviction or sentence of a multi-count conviction is vacated, the trial court is not required to enter a new judgment as to the remaining counts, and those convictions and sentences remain undisturbed
• “The district court did not enter an amended judgment of conviction in this case. No new sentence was imposed. The less fundamental change made to Lampton’s judgment of conviction is not enough to allow him to bypass AEDPA’s restrictions on piecemeal habeas litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).