Robert Rodriguez v. Robert Mitchell, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility, and Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York

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• noting that relief under Rule 60(b)(6) “is appropriate only in cases presenting extraordinary circumstances”
• noting that petitioner’s Rule 60(b) motion was grounded in allegation that his attorney made fraudulent representations to the federal district court and observing that these grounds relate to the integrity of the federal habeas proceeding and not to the integrity of the state criminal trial
• “Rodriguez seeks to vacate the judgment under . . . Clause (6) [of Rule 60(b
• “[W]hile [the Rule 60(b) motion] is undoubtedly a step on the road to the ultimate objective of invalidating the judgment of conviction, it does not seek that relief. It seeks only to vacate the federal court judgment dismissing the habeas petition.”
• enumerating the grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).