Roy William Harris v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “[I]t is well established . . . that a ‘proper case’ for Rule 60(b)(6) relief is only one of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ or ‘extreme hardship.’” (citation omitted)
• Rule 60 motion to reopen habeas action inappropriate where motion attacks the underlying conviction on the merits by, for example, seeking to add a new ground for relief
• “a habeas petitioner has no constitutional right to counsel in his habeas proceeding”
• discussing affording petitioners sufficient opportunity to avoid transfer, referencing Gitten
• allowing Rule 60(b)(6) claims on grounds of attorney abandonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).