Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis G. Leon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 10, 2000No. 19-1162PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Per curiam
The question presented, as a matter of first impression for this Court, is whether a federal court has jurisdiction to consider a motion to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when no such petition has actually been filed. The question arises on a motion by the Government to dismiss appellant Luis G. Leon’s appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Peter C. Dorsey, Judge) denying Leon’s “Motion in Request to Submit an Out of Time Petition (§ 2255).” We conclude that jurisdiction is lacking…
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