Legal Opinion
Johnson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2003No. 01-14830PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
This case allows us to clarify the time limits in cases where career offenders indi*1221rectly attack their federal sentences by first collaterally attacking their prior state convictions. Federal prisoner Robert Johnson brought such an indirect attack on his federal sentence, and he now appeals the district court’s denial of his § 2255 petition as untimely. We issued a certificate of appealability on the following question:
Whether the district court correctly determined that appellant’s motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, was untimely under the one-year…
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