Legal Opinion
Trenkler v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 1, 2008No. 07-1678, 07-1679PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These cross-appeals require us to explore poorly understood terrain: the modern configuration and use of the ancient writ of error coram nobis. This archeological dig entails a determination of when and under what circumstances that writ may be used by a criminal defendant as a vehicle for securing post-conviction relief.
The context is as follows. The petitioner, Mfred W. Trenkler, is a prison inmate, currently serving a federal sentence. He confronted the district court with a claim that more than ten years earlier it had illegally sentenced him to life imprisonment.…
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