Miguel Dejesus Liriano v. United States

Petitioner-appellant Miguel DeJesus Liri-ano purported to file a motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on June 17, 1996. His motion contended that the government had violated his Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by allowing a potential defense witness to leave the United States, and that his trial counsel had been ineffective in allowing this to occur. It also asserted that his application should not be deemed impermissibly successive to a prior § 2255 motion that he had filed because at the time the…