James W. Chambers v. Bill Armontrout

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• holding that relief was not justified when the defendant “could have appealed” but chose not to
• noting that the District Court did not err by granting additional time to retry the prisoner, particularly since there was “some evidence that the delay in retrial had been attributable at least in part to the defense”
• rejecting district court’s failure to comply with an appellate mandate as a sufficient basis for rendering order void under Rule 60(b)(4); United States v. Boch Oldsmobile, Inc., 909 F.2d 657, 661-62 (1st Cir. 1990) (explaining that relief under Rule 60(b)(4
• “Absent extraordinary circumstances, Rule 60(b)(6) motions cannot be used to remedy a failure to take an appeal.”
• “Absent extraordinary circumstances, Rule 60(b) motion cannot be used to remedy a failure to take an appeal”
• district court did not err in granting state addi- tional time to conduct retrial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).