Legal Opinion
United States v. Quentin Miller, A/K/A "Q" Quentin Miller
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 22, 1999No. 97-7438PublishedCited by 255 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
Quentin Miller pled guilty to conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. After this Court reviewed the voluntariness of Miller’s plea and affirmed his sentence on direct appeal, he filed two pro se post-conviction motions in the District Court challenging the indictment underlying his conviction. The District Court, acting sua sponte, recharacterized Miller’s ineptly drafted motions as a single 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion and dismissed Miller’s claims on their merits.
This kind of recharacterization poses a novel problem of judicial administration. The…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Michael Kapral v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
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