Supreme Court· 6/12/2025

Rivers v. Guerrero

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605 U.S. 443
222 L. Ed. 2d 93
145 S. Ct. 1634

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\Section 2244 prohibits habeas applicants from filing a subsequent petition that relitigates the merits of previously denied claims.\
“These rules apply to second-in-time habeas filings even if the filing is not styled as a § 2254 habeas application by the filer—so long as the document is a § 2254 petition in substance.”
“[I]n general, once the district court has entered its judgment with respect to the first habeas petition, a second-in-time application qualifies as ‘second or successive’ and is thus properly subject to the requirements of § 2244(b).”
“We are a Court of review, not of first view.”

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Judges: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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