Legal Opinion

Kim Chambers v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided February 7, 1997No. Docket 96-3544PublishedCited by 174 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This proceeding arises from a transfer by Judge Glasser of two petitions filed pro se by Kim Chambers, an . incarcerated prisoner. The district court regarded the petitions as successive petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which could not be filed without our permission under 28 U.S.C. § 2244. We transfer the first petition back to the district court and dismiss the other.

Chambers had pleaded guilty to an information of one count of using a telephone in committing the distribution of cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 843(b), 841(c), and 18 U.S.C. § 2, and a second…

2Cases cited12 opinions

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  3. Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  4. Felker v. TurpinSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. Miguel Dejesus Liriano v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996

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