United States v. Nicholas Palumbo

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• providing that “incompetent prior representation by counsel” is a possible exception to the rule that a § 2255 petitioner may not relitigate issues that were adjudicated at trial and on direct appeal
• “[I]n the absence of newly discovered evidence that could not reasonably have been presented at the original trial . . . a § 2255 petitioner may not relitigate issues that were adjudicated at his original trial and on direct appeal.”

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