Oscar Porcelli v. United States

BRIEANT, District Judge.

Oscar Porcelli, a federal felon, appeals from an Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York denying his petition for a writ of error coram nobis, collaterally attacking Porcelli’s 1987 federal felony conviction.

We review de novo the standards that a District Court applies in considering the writ of error coram nobis and review for abuse of discretion a District Court’s final decision to deny the writ. Fleming v. United States, 146 F.3d 88, 90 (2d Cir.1998).

Coram nobis is an “extraordinary remedy” authorized under the All Writs Act,…