UNITED STATES v. MCCOY (2019)

Garion McCoy, federal prisoner # 01162-748, appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for a writ of audita querela under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651. McCoy alleges that the Government suppressed impeachment evidence relating to the key witness who testified against him at trial. McCoy was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine base, using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Although he has raised the same claim in a motion for a new trial, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, and an attempted successive § 2255 motion, McCoy again asserts that new evidence discredits the witness’s testimony and that the Government should have corrected the witness’s false testimony during trial.

McCoy cannot challenge the Government’s failure to disclose evidence by writ of audita querela, as he does not identify “a legal objection to a judgment which has arisen subsequent to that judgment.” See United States v. Miller, 599 F.3d 484, 488 (5th Cir. 2010); Jimenez v. Trominski, 91 F.3d 767, 768 (5th Cir. 1996) (affirming denial of writ of audita querela alleging failure to disclose exculpatory evidence because petitioner did not raise “a legal defense arising, after the entry of judgment, sufficient to justify issuance of the extraordinary writ”). Moreover, McCoy fails to show that redress is unavailable under § 2255. See Miller, 599 F.3d at 487-88; United States v. Banda, 1 F.3d 354, 356 (5th Cir. 1993). That McCoy may not satisfy the requirements for a successive § 2255 petition does not render that remedy unavailable. See Tolliver v. Dobre, 211 F.3d 876, 878 (5th Cir. 2000).

The district court’s judgment is therefore AFFIRMED.

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PER CURIAM: * FN* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.