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· 10/7/2013

Koering v. Sullivan

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 287
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 207
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3187
  • 571 U.S. 915
  • 2013 WL 3809997
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 6572

How courts have described this case

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  • “The principle of finality ‘must yield to the imperative of correcting a fundamentally unjust incarceration’ ”
  • petitioner “is innocent of the statutory ‘offense’ of being a career offender (having two prior violent felonies) and was sentenced, in part, for a non-existent offense–being a career offender with only one prior violent felony.”

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