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UNITED STATES of America v. Diodayan LEDESMA-CUESTA, Appellant.
    No. 12-2126.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted for Possible Summary Action Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6 Aug. 16, 2012.
    Opinion Filed: Aug. 27, 2012.
    Joan E. Burnes, Esq., Robert K. Reed, Esq., Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for United States of America.
    Diodayan Ledesma-Cuesta, Otisville, NY, pro se.
    Before: AMBRO, JORDAN and VANASKIE, Circuit Judges.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Diodayan Ledesma-Cuesta appeals an order denying 1) his request for audita querela relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 2) his motion for correction of a clerical error in the criminal judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 36. Finding no substantial question to be presented by this appeal, we will summarily affirm. In a previous opinion, we explained to the appellant that attacks on his federal conviction and sentence must generally be pursued via 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which in his case would require seeking authorization from this Court; he has not done so, and nothing in the interim has altered the unavailability of the writ of audita querela. See United States v. Ledesmar-Cuesta, 443 Fed.Appx. 685, 685-86 (3d Cir.2011). Furthermore, we agree with the District Court that there is no clear clerical error in the judgment, especially as the superseding indictment contains the same offense-conclusion date reflected in the judgment. Summary affirmance is therefore appropriate. See Murray v. Bledsoe, 650 F.3d 246, 248 (3d Cir.2011) (per curiam); see also 3d Cir. L.A.R. 27.4; I.O.P. 10.6. 
      
      . We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Although we have apparently not established, in this Circuit, a precise standard for review of Rule 36 motions, we need not do so today because appellant's request is infirm under any available standard.
     
      
      . The appellant appears to admit that he seeks to correct his judgment because he believes that this will allow him to proceed anew via 28 U.S.C. § 2255 without having to satisfy the "second or successive” requirements of 28 U.S.C § 2255(h) and 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3). But Magwood v. Patterson,U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2788, 177 L.Ed.2d 592 (2010), upon which he relies, involved a re-sentencing leading to a revised state-court judgment. Id. at 2796. He points to no prec-edential opinion that suggests that the correction of a clerical error serves to either restart the limitations period or negate the existence of a prior attempt at collateral relief.