Bowe v. United States · ¶114
AEDPA seeks “to advance the finality of criminal convictions.” Mayle v. Felix, 545 U. S. 644, 662 (2005). It does so, in part, by imposing “stric[t] limit[s]” on the ability of federal and state prisoners to bring multiple postconviction attacks in federal court. See Jones v. Hendrix, 599 U. S. 465, 476 (2023). So, for example, a federal prisoner's second or successive collateral attack “must be certified . . . to contain” a showing of either new facts or new law. § 2255(h). The new-facts route requires the prisoner to show that he possesses newly discovered evidence that, if proved, would establish his innocence clearly and convincingly. See § 2255(h)(1). The new-law route requires him to argue that his conviction or sentence is unlawful in light of a new rule of constitutional law that this Court has made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review. See § 2255(h)(2).…Read in context ›
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