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Desmond George DOUGLAS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 06-11502
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    May 14, 2007.
    Desmond George Douglas, Youngstown, OH, pro se.
    Phillip DiRosa, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Anne R. Schultz, Jonathan D. Colan, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami, FL, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Desmond George Douglas, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s denial of his Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motion in which he seeks relief from a criminal judgment based on his “actual innocence.” He contends that the district court erred by construing his motion as a motion filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

We review the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion for an abuse of discretion. See Jackson v. Crosby, 437 F.3d 1290, 1295 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 127 S.Ct. 240, 166 L.Ed.2d 189 (2006). Rule 60(b) does not provide for relief from the judgment in a criminal case. United States v. Mosavi, 138 F.3d 1365,1366 (11th Cir.1998). In other circumstances, a Rule 60(b) motion is treated as a second or successive motion under § 2255, which is subject to the procedural requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), Pub.L. No. 104-32, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996). See Felker v. Turpin, 101 F.3d 657, 661 (11th Cir.1996) (28 U.S.C. § 2254 context).

In this case, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Douglas’s motion to vacate his criminal judgment under Rule 60(b). As stated above, Rule 60(b) does not provide for relief from a criminal judgment.

AFFIRMED. 
      
      . In some limited circumstances, Rule 60(b) can provide relief from an earlier denial of a § 2255 petition. See Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 533-36, 125 S.Ct. 2641, 2648-50, 162 L.Ed.2d 480 (2005).