Uriel Gonzalez v. Stuart Sherman

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), a state prisoner is ordinarily prohibited from filing more than one federal petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction or sentence. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b). We have previously held, however, that when a state trial court amends a prisoner’s judgment of conviction, it creates a new, intervening judgment which a prisoner may challenge in a federal habeas petition without that petition being denied as “second or successive” under AEDPA. See Wentzell v. Neven, 674 F.3d 1124,…