Legal Opinion
Mustafa Abdullah v. Bill Hedrick, Warden, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 17, 2004No. 03-1645PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Mustafa Abdullah appeals the district court’s1 dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (2000). The issue in this case is whether, in the circumstances presented, 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2000) is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of Abdullah’s conviction, such that a district court would have jurisdiction to consider a § 2241 petition for habeas corpus relief. We agree that the district court had no jurisdiction to consider Abdullah’s claim, and we affirm the judgment of the district court.
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Abdullah’s claim, stemming from a…
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