United States v. Uriel Carranza

Uriel Carranza appeals from the district court’s 1 order recharacterizing his “motion for review of sentence” as an unauthorized successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, and denying it for lack of jurisdiction. Because Mr. Carranza’s motion was his second collateral attack on his sentence, and Mr. Carranza did not obtain this court’s authorization before filing his motion, it was the functional equivalent of an unauthorized successive section 2255 motion, and the district court properly denied it. See United States v. Patton, 309 F.3d 1093, 1094 (8th Cir.2002) (prisoners may not bypass…