Sanders v. United States

·1963

What the Court Decided

The Court interpreted the original successive-petition bar in Section 2255 narrowly, holding it addressed only the successive-claim problem and not the abuse-of-the-writ doctrine.

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Cited In

Bowe v. United States

2025 Term · 24-5438

Cited by amicus to show that the prior standalone successive bar in Section 2255 had been marginalized by the Court, which gave Congress reason to route federal prisoners through Section 2244's more robust provisions when enacting AEDPA.