Jones v. Hendrix is emblematic of everything that's wrong with this court.
law indicates that the courts misinterpreted a statute and caused someone to be wrongly convicted or sentenced.
As Sotomayor and Kagan wrote in their joint dissent, where section 2255 bars a claim that could be raised in a habeas proceeding , section 2255 is inadequate to test a conviction and sentence because section 2255 doesn’t authorize a person to apply for relief—and so that person should be able to file a habeas petition.
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