Legal Opinion
William P. Ellzey v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 28, 2003No. 02-3633PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
To appeal from the rejection of his collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, William Ellzey needs a certificate of ap-pealability. One potential problem is timeliness: we affirmed his conviction on May 10, 1999, in an unpublished order, and the petition Ellzey filed on May 8, 2000, was a placeholder. It asserts that his lawyer furnished ineffective assistance at sentencing but supplies neither factual detail nor legal elaboration. In the place provided for supporting facts and argument, Ellzey wrote: “will be amended within thirty (30) days.” Ellzey filed this…
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