Nichols v. Symmes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prisoner who sought to withdraw guilty plea based on alleged breach of plea agreement due to his placement in a federal, rather than a state, prison facility had to bring claim under § 2255, not § 2241
• explaining a “claim attacking the execution of a sentence should be brought in a § 2241 petition in the jurisdiction of incarceration”
• petitioner’s claim that he was wrongly confined in a federal facility was moot in that it had already been cured by his transfer to a state facility
• describing the § 2255(h) authorization requirements as “stringent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).