Chijioke Chukwuma Isamade v. Jim Cooper

Summary

The court ordered that a habeas petition challenging convictions arising from a global plea agreement be filed as a motion to amend a previously pending habeas petition because both petitions challenged the same judgment. The court directed the Clerk to file the petition and proposed amended petition in the earlier case and close the present case.

Holdings

1. A petitioner must raise all claims relating to a single judgment in one habeas petition; a new petition challenging the same judgment while an earlier petition remains pending cannot proceed as a separate action.

Questions Presented

1. Whether a habeas petition challenging convictions included in the same single judgment as convictions challenged in an earlier pending petition must be treated as a second or successive petition.
2. Whether the later-filed pro se habeas petition should instead be construed as a motion to amend the earlier pending petition.

Disposition

other