Robert J. Anderson v. United States

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• explaining that such a claim is not constitutional or jurisdictional in nature
• “A petitioner simply cannot raise a nonconstitutional or nonjurisdictional issue in a § 2255 motion if the issue could have been raised on direct appeal but was not.”
• fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice exception applies only to claims of factual, as opposed to legal, innocence
• claim that statutory elements of crime not met, not constitutional or jurisdictional
• distinguishing between “legal innocence” and “actual” or “factual” innocence

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