Rawlins v. State of Kansas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “federal courts have no jurisdiction to issue writs of coram nobis with respect to state criminal judgments” (citation omitted)
• noting federal courts have “no power to examine a state-court judgment under the writ of coram nobis”
• noting 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was not available to petitioner seeking writ of coram nobis because the state courts did not complete post-conviction review until “long after” petitioner’s sentence expired
• “coram nobis [is] a writ from the judgment-issuing court to 24 itself, granting itself power to reopen that judgment.”
• “Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(e) eliminated coram nobis in federal civil actions.”
• “[A]udita querela addresses unanticipated situations that arise after judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).