Johnson v. Capitol Life Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a challenge to the validity of the conviction by a federal prisoner not yet sentenced “is not properly considered a § 2255 motion”
• holding that a § 2255 motion can only be filed after sentencing
• finding a defendant cannot bring a motion under Section 2255 to the extent defendant is not “in custody under a sentence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).