Legal Opinion
Morris v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 9, 1999No. 98-9008PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
Kelvin X. Morris, a death-sentenced prisoner, seeks a Certificate of Appealability (CAPP) so that he can challenge the District Court’s refusal to give him a form of Rule 60(b) relief that would operate in an unusual way upon the federal habeas corpus proceedings pending in the District Court. The District Court dismissed Morris’s habeas petition because he had not exhausted state remedies on all of his claims; his second Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) petition was still pending in state court.
*336The District Court, in an apparent effort to…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Agostini v. FeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
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3Cited by173 opinions
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