Carranza v. United States

Petitioner Victor Carranza, proceeding pro se, seeks leave to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion raising, as relevant here, two claims: (1) that his attorney was ineffective for failing to timely file an appellate brief and appendix, which resulted in the dismissal of Carranza’s direct appeal; and (2) that Carranza “has been denied proper ‘access to the courts,’ ” due to, among other things, his attorney’s ineffectiveness. We hold that, although Carranza’s first § 2255 motion challenging the legality of his 2009 conviction and sentence was previously denied on the merits, his proposed…