United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a motion to vacate a previous denial of postconviction relief is vacated where the district court exceeded its jurisdiction in ruling on the motion since it was really a successive section 2255 motion that the petitioner had filed without obtaining the permission of the court of appeals.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/08/2007
• Published 11/08/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carlos Curry, Milan, MI, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edmond E. Chang, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.