BURGESS v. U.S.

No. 15-12045.

874 F.3d 1292 (2017)

Michael Frank BURGESS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erica Hashimoto , Georgetown Appellate Litigation Clinic, Amit Ramnik Vora , Georgetown University Law Center, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

David Paul Rhodes , David Charles Waterman , Arthur Lee Bentley, III , Tampa, FL, Roger Bernard Handberg, III , Orlando, FL, U.S. Attorney's Office, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before ROSENBAUM and JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.


Efficiency can be a virtue, particularly for a court. But sometimes we can have too much of even a good thing.1 That's what happened here. In this case, Petitioner-Appellant Michael Frank Burgess filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging his conviction and sentence. Although the government...

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