U.S. v. BARRETT

No. 96-2355.

178 F.3d 34 (1999)

UNITED STATES, Respondent, Appellee, v. James BARRETT, Petitioner, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G.S. Flym, with whom Liz Bostwick was on brief, for appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Jay P. McCloskey, U.S. Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Circuit Judge, Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lynch, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

A federal prisoner/parolee, convicted of a serious crime committed twenty-five years ago, seeks to avoid the restrictions imposed by Congress in 1996 on successive petitions for post-conviction relief and argues that it is illegal and unconstitutional to deny him the ability to raise an argument about the validity of his conviction that he could have raised properly in 1990. He has not shown that he is actually innocent and no claims of constitutional...

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