United States v. Ewart Mark Holder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the writ, “if available at all . . . can only INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032, 1038 (1984
• holding that writ of audita querela does not and cannot provide a purely equitable basis for relief independent of any legal defect in an underlying judgment
• noting that whether \the writ is available\ is \an issue fraught with many problems that we expressly do not now decide\
• noting that whether \the writ is available” is \an issue fraught with many problems that we expressly do not now decide”
• affirming the denial of a petition to vacate a 1974 marijuana conviction
• “We agree with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that the writ of audita querela does not and cannot, under any stretch of the imagination, provide á purely equitable basis for relief independent of any legal defect in the underlying judgment.”

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