Paul J. Foont v. United States

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• collecting cases recognizing that coram nobis is remedy of last resort for petitioners no longer in custody pursuant to challenged conviction, but “not a substitute for appeal”
• \[I]t is . . . important that reasonable diligence be required [of a coram nobis petitioner] in order that litigation may one day be at an end.\ (quoting Honeycutt v. Ward, 612 F.2d 36, 42 (2d Cir. 1979))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).