Legal Opinion
Brackett v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 31, 2001No. 01-1466PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This ease raises an issue important to the administration of criminal law: the accrual date for the application of the one year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(4) (1994 & Supp. II 1996) to a federal prisoner who petitions to reduce his federal sentence because the underlying state convictions (on which the length of the federal sentence is predicated) have since been vacated.
Scott T. Brackett is a federal prisoner who pled guilty in July 1997 to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (1994)…
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