Goodman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Gary Goodman appeals from the district court’s order dismissing as untimely his motion challenging the validity of his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We agree with both parties that the district court erred in dismissing Goodman’s motion, filed sixteen days after the effective date of § 105 of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”), which established a one-year judge “period of limitation” for § 2255 motions, on timeliness grounds.
In August of 1988, Goodman pled guilty to stealing $5,600 from a federally insured bank and was sentenced to twelve years in prison…
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