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· 8/1/2008

Trenkler v. United States

Citations

  • 536 F.3d 85
  • 2008 WL 2941573

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • § 2255 designed to address claim that sentence was in excess of term allowed by law
  • petitioner’s claim was “incompatible with engagement of the savings clause” because it did not “charge that [the] sentence is beyond the statutory maximum for the crimes of conviction” or assert actual innocence
  • “Any motion filed in the district court that imposed the sentence, and substantively within the scope of § 2255 para. 1, is a motion under § 2255, no matter what title the prisoner plasters on the cover.”

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Judges: Howard, Selya, Stafford

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