Suarez v. Trimble

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• holding that, once a petitioner has been convicted in state court, any writ of habeas corpus granted by a federal court would necessarily free him from custody pursuant to a state court judgment, implicating 28 U.S.C. § 2254
• explaining that Section 2241 concerns the general power to grant habeas corpus petitions, while Section 2254 applies to persons in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court
• explaining that § 2241 empowers federal court to grant writs of habeas corpus in general, while § 2254 “applies to ‘a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court’”
• finding § 2254 governs any habeas writ filed by a person currently in custody pursuant to a state court judgment
• finding § 2254 governs any habeas writ filed by a person currently in custody pursuant to a state court judgment
• noting that a petition under §2241 is limited by §2254 if the 7 See Dkt. No. 1 at 6 (“Defendant...denied Plaintiff...the equal protection of law by her insistence that Plaintiff...could not rely on § 2241 article III petition to resolve constitutional infractions...”

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