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DERRICK TAYLOR v. ANGELA M. OWENS, Warden

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 9, 2021

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Brandon Sample, BRANDON SAMPLE PLC, Rutland, Vermont, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Kevin G. Ritz, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Judge(s): DAUGHTREY, McKEAGUE, and THAPAR, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee at Memphis

THAPAR, Circuit Judge. Derrick Taylor robbed a bank at gunpoint. And when police tried to arrest him, he led them on a high-speed chase, killed an innocent driver sharing the road, shot another driver, and abducted a woman and her child. Almost three decades later, he challenged one of the resulting convictions and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The district court denied Taylor’s application. But Taylor never cleared the jurisdictional bar necessary for a court to adjudicate his claim. See id. § 2255(e). So we vacate the district court’s order and remand with instructions to dismiss the application for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

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