Dhinsa v. Krueger

Susan L. Carney, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Edward R. Korman, Judge ) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Dhinsa claims that he is entitled to bring a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 because the standard remedies under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 are "inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention," thereby entitling him to invoke the "savings clause" codified in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e).

In 1999, a jury convicted Dhinsa on numerous counts…