Steven Finkelstein v. Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General

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• collecting cases and 16 affirming denial of petition for coram nobis relief on ground of lack of subject matter 17 jurisdiction
• agreeing with other Circuits “that the district courts lack jurisdiction to issue writs of coram nobis to set aside judgments of state courts”
• Agreeing with the Third, Fourth, Fifth, 4 Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Circuits “that the district courts lack jurisdiction to issue writs 5 of coram nobis to set aside judgments of state courts.”
• addressing federal court jurisdiction to set aside a state court conviction
• Federal “court[s] lacks jurisdiction to grant such a writ with respect to a judgment of a state court. As a historical matter, the writ of coram nobis was used by a court to correct its own errors.”

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