Court Opinion

ID: 9495036
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:53:03.4553+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:46.800460
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RONEY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. I would reverse the dismissal of Castro’s section 2255 motion as successive and remand for consideration on the merits following the reasoning of the First Circuit’s opinion in Raineri v. United States, 233 F.3d 96 (1st Cir.2000).
The decision here is in direct conflict with Raineri, the only case cited directly addressing a pre-AEDPA motion that was “converted” to a section 2255 motion, followed by a post-AEDPA section 2255 motion. On facts very similar to these, the Raineri court held that a sua sponte re-characterization ordinarily will not count as a first petition and remanded the case back to the district court for consideration of Raineri’s section 2255 motion on the merits. See also cases involving post-AEDPA converted motions: Adams v. United States, 155 F.3d 582 (2d Cir.1998) (movant must know of potential adverse consequences of recharacterization and be given the opportunity to withdraw motion); United States v. Miller, 197 F.3d 644 (3d Cir.1999) (court must issue notice of the effect of recharacterization and offer the opportunity to withdraw motion); United States v. Seesing, 234 F.3d 456 (9th Cir.2000) (movant must know consequences of recharacterization, or the purpose of aiding pro se petitioner is frustrated); United States v. Kelly, 235 F.3d 1238 (10th Cir.2000) (following Adams); Henderson v. United States, 264 F.3d 709, 711 (7th Cir.2001) (even though the district court converted and denied a Rule 33 motion, “we won’t deem a Rule 33 (or other mislabeled motion) a section 2255 motion unless the movant has been warned about the consequences of his mistake.”)
The Fifth Circuit case of In Re Tolliver, 97 F.3d 89 (5th Cir.1996), involved a post-AEDPA, not a pre-AEDPA “converted” motion, in which the petitioner had re-’ ceived full relief on his prior motion, relief which could have been granted only upon a “conversion” to a section 2255 motion, and relief which the petitioner readily accepted.
We have found no case in which a pre-AEDPA motion that was “converted” by *1276the court and then denied barred a second post-AEDPA section 2255 motion.