Melvin Walker v. United States
HabeasCorpus
Did Congress, with the enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and the AEDPA, provide District Courts with unquestionable authority to manage their own docket and, in some cases, extend the statute of limitations without consideration of the provisions as prescribed in the AEDPA?
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED TS COSC. presents _..___Concering poceedurs_of the District and Courts of Appeals ___ _fesprding due pacess in federal Rules of Civil peceedune_ Role. G0) motions as well as a District Courts gutheity f _Unguestienable. quthoty tp_maogse its own docket vs. the _. _ Anti= Terro.rism.and Death Penalty Act of 199%6 CAEDPAD, 28 WS. SSS), Clay. V. US, 537US, S99, 52S C4603) _.Mn_walker pcesents the questions. that Follows _.__.__ LL) Did_congress, with the enactment of 28 US.c.8 RSS PY, Gnd the AEDPA, provid also_that_q_——_ District Courts ungye.stion able Outhority te manage —_ ES OW docket tAlaciid in Some. cases extend the Stotute of limtotions imithout Consideration af’ _ the prpwisibos_as prescribed Po fA) lould a Court of Appeals wolate a Whovants on the. merits after the government Conceeds od the Appellate Court agrees that the District — ___ rr OY) when Such Collateral preceeding was the. First place te challenge a Conviction oo _ Sah tuto _of the. denial of effective assistance Sof ounse 2 a