Legal Opinion
Lee v. Wetzel
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 8, 2001No. 00-30266PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Petitioner appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Contrary to the approach taken by the district court, we do not consider the merits of Petitioner’s § 2241 petition. Instead, we address the question whether the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana had jurisdiction to decide the merits of the petition. Specifically, we decide whether the District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the district in which Petitioner was incarcerated at the time he filed his § 2241 petition, properly…
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