Legal Opinion
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman v. Wayne Carpenter
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 4, 2015No. 13-6126PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSiler, J., joined by Batchelder, J.,
COLE, C.J. (pp. 717-24), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (formerly known as James Lee Jones), a Tennessee death-row prisoner, appeals the district court’s judgment denying his Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) motion for relief from the 1998 judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. Abdur’Rahman has also filed a motion to remand. For the reasons stated below, we AFFIRM the district court’s judgment and DENY the motion to remand.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 1987, Abdur’Rahman was convicted of…
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