Embrey v. United States

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

William J.R. Embrey, proceeding pro se, seeks a writ of coram nobis challenging his 1969 federal bank-robbery conviction. Construing his petition with the liberality it is due, see Erickson v. Pardus, — U.S. -, 127 S.Ct. 2197, 2200, 167 L.Ed.2d 1081 (2007); Andrews v. Heaton, 483 F.3d 1070, 1076 (10th Cir.2007), Mr. Embrey suggests his aged conviction rests on a violation of the federal structure of our Constitution. Because, among other defects, the writ of coram nobis is not a proper vehicle for (re)litigating years- or decades-later issues…