Legal Opinion
Ibrahim v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 29, 2011No. 09-5052PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge:
A prisoner convicted in D.C. Superior Court may raise a collateral challenge to his sentence by motion in that court, D.C.Code § 23-110(a), but may not apply for a writ of habeas corpus “unless it ... appears that the remedy by motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention,” id. § 23 — 110(g). Because the Supreme Court has found that the District of Columbia judges’ lack of life tenure and constitutional salary protection do not render the § 23-110 remedy “inadequate or…
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- Swain v. PressleySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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