Legal Opinion
Wofford v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 14, 1999No. 98-8297PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Charlie Wofford, a federal prisoner, seeks to have three claims he failed to raise in his first 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion addressed and decided on the merits. His problem is that § 2255, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996), permits a federal prisoner to file a second motion challenging his sentence or the conviction underlying it in only the narrowest of circumstances. We denied his earlier application to file a second § 2255 motion.
Wofford is now back before us on an appeal from the district…
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