Legal Opinion
United States v. Barrett
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 27, 1999No. 19-2038PublishedCited by 255 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
A federal prisoner/parolee, convicted of a serious crime committed twenty-five years ago, seeks to avoid the restrictions imposed by Congress in 1996 on successive petitions for post-conviction relief and argues that it is illegal and unconstitutional to deny him the ability to raise an argument about the validity of his conviction that he could have raised properly in 1990. He has not shown that he is actually innocent and no claims of constitutional dimension are raised on these facts. Under the various applicable gatekeeping mechanisms, which augment society’s…
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