United States v. Pearson, No. 17-14619 (11th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseThe Eleventh Circuit held that the district court did not have jurisdiction over defendant's brand new 28 U.S.C. 2255 challenge because the court never gave defendant permission to raise it. In this case, defendant was required to ask this court for permission to raise a claim in a successive section 2255 motion, which he did not. Therefore, the court vacated the district court's merits decision and remanded with instructions to dismiss the new section 2255 challenge. The court also held that defendant failed to meet his burden of showing that his new sentence was substantively unreasonable.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on December 28, 2021.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on March 20, 2023.
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