Magwood v. Patterson, 561 U.S. 287 (2010), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, when a state prisoner obtains federal habeas corpus relief and is re-sentenced, a habeas application challenging the new judgment is not a "second or successive" challenge even if the prisoner could have challenged the original sentence on the same ground.

[1] In this context, the Court said the habeas petition challenged the judgment, not the state's overall custody of the petitioner.

If the Court had interpreted this situation as a "second or successive challenge," the petitioner's case would have been ignored under 28 U.S.C.

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