United States v. Thomas Mills, Sr.

Affirmed by published opinion.

Judge MOTZ wrote the majority opinion, in which Senior Judge DAVIS joined. Judge FLOYD wrote a separate opinion dissenting in part and concurring in the judgment.

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Andrew Mills, Sr. petitioned the district court for a certificate of actual innocence after his felon-in-possession conviction was vacated. A court may grant such a certificate, a prerequisite for recovering from the Government compensation for wrongful incarceration, only in those rare eases in which it finds a previously convicted defendant to be truly innocent.…