Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. v. United States

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• holding that coram nobis jurisdiction only available for “matter of fact of the most fundamental character which has not been put in issue or passed upon and which renders the proceeding itself irregular and invalid”
• “A claim of newly discovered evidence relevant only to the guilt or innocence of the [defendant] is not cog- nizable in a coram nobis proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).