Legal Opinion
Joseph Lombardo v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 20, 2017No. 15-2860PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeGUILIO, District Judge.
Joseph Lombardo is serving a life sentence on his convictions for racketeering, murder, and obstruction of justice. After *550we affirmed his convictions and sentence on direct appeal, he retained a new attorney to argue that his convictions were the product of his trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. However, his new attorney misunderstood when the one-year limitations period for motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 began running, and thus filed Lombardo’s motion too late.
The question in this appeal is whether an attorney’s miscalculation of a statute of limitations justifies…
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