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Rule 4. If it plainly appears from the petition and any attached exhibits that the petitioner is not entitled to relief in the district court, the judge must dismiss the petition and direct the clerk to notify the petitioner.
Unlike a 2254 petition, which challenges a state-court conviction and/or sentence, a 2255 petition is not limited to federal constitutional claims. 28 U.S.C. 2255 provides that it may be used to raise claims that your sentence or conviction was unauthorized under any law of the United States.
Habeas Corpus is a Latin word meaning which literally means to have the body of. It is an order issued by the court to a person who has detained another person, to produce the body of the latter before it. The court then examines the cause and legality of detention.
A Section 2255 motion must be filed in the district where the prisoner was convicted and sentenced. The motion usually seeks to have the sentence or conviction vacated and may also request resentencing. As a general matter, Section 2255 is the proper vehicle for almost all federal prisoner collateral attacks.
You may file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254 if you are in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court in violation of the federal constitution or federal statutes. You may challenge either the fact or duration of your state sentence.

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The Latin term means, literally, you have the body. Federal courts use a writ of habeas corpus to bring a prisoner before a neutral judge to determine if imprisonment is legal.
Thus, the most basic criterion for the issuance of the writ is that the individual seeking such relief be illegally deprived of his freedom of movement or placed under some form of illegal restraint. Concomitantly, if a persons liberty is restrained by some legal process, the writ of habeas corpus is unavailing.
A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. an institutionalized psychiatric patient) before the court to determine if the persons imprisonment or detention is lawful. A habeas petition proceeds as a civil action against the State agent who holds the defendant in custody.

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