Court Opinion

ID: 204772
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2011-02-15 17:55:40+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:27:45.648262
License: Public Domain

HLD-023 (October 2010)                                          NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                 ___________

                                       No. 10-3718
                                       ___________

                              In re: OSSIE R. TRADER,
                                                  Petitioner
                       ____________________________________

                      On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the
           United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
                     (Related to E.D. Pa. Crim. No. 94-00534-002)
                      ____________________________________

                   Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P.
                                 October 29, 2010
        Before: McKEE, Chief Judge, and ALDISERT and WEIS, Circuit Judges
                        (Opinion filed: February 15, 2011)
                                    _________

                                        OPINION
                                        _________

PER CURIAM.

       Ossie Trader is a federal prisoner serving a 248-month sentence for armed bank

robbery and related crimes. This is at the least the seventh time, and the second in less

than two months, that Trader has sought to challenge his conviction by way of mandamus

in order to circumvent AEDPA‟s gate-keeping requirements for successive § 2255

motions. For the reasons just given in In re Trader, CA No. 10-3373 (3d Cir. Oct. 13,

                                             1
2010), we will deny Trader‟s latest mandamus petition.1 We caution that another attempt

to raise the challenge rejected here will prompt us to initiate proceedings to enjoin such

repetitive filings.

       1
         We note for Trader‟s benefit that United States v. Carrasquillo, 667 F.2d 382 (3d
Cir. 1981), is not germane to the argument he makes in support of mandamus relief. In
Carrasquillo, we clarified what events in a criminal case would trigger the running of the
70-day Speedy Trial Act period. 667 F.2d at 384 (“When there is no [pre-indictment]
appearance because an information or indictment is the first step in a criminal case, then
postindictment arraignment will be the relevant „last occurring= date” for purposes of
assessing whether there has been a violation of the Speedy Trial Act.).

                                             2