United States First Circuit

Petitions under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 for relief from convictions for making false statements in connection with claimed property losses due to Hurricane Georges are denied where: 1) the petitions were time-barred; 2) claimed exceptions under the doctrines of equitable tolling and actual innocence did not apply; and 3) petitioners failed to establish eligibility for coram nobis relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/24/2008
• Published 12/24/2008

Judges

• DiCLERICO, District Judge., Before TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and DiCLERICO, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lorenzo J. Palomares-Starbuck was on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julia M. Meconiates, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa E. Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, and Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for respondent.