In re Cossio v. United States

U NITED S TATES A IR F ORCE C OURT OF C RIMINAL APPEALS In re Jose A. COSSIO, Jr. ) Misc. Dkt. No. 2025-03 Petitioner ) ) ) ) ORDER ) ) ) ) Special Panel On 24 March 2025, this court received a “Petition for Extraordinary Relief in the Nature of a Writ of Error Coram Nobis,” filed pro se, in the above-styled case. The petition was docketed with this court on 7 April 2025.

Petitioner requests this court: (1) identify the members of the special panel which denied a petition he previously filed with this court, In re Cossio, Misc.

Dkt. No. 2021-04, 2021 CCA LEXIS 696 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. 20 Dec. 2021) (unpub. order);* (2) determine whether any members of that special panel should have recused themselves from participation in ruling on the earlier pe- tition “due to prior involvement in [Petitioner’s] cases;” and (3) if so, determine “whether a new panel should be constructed to hear Petitioner’s challenge” to his conviction in light of Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021).

We have carefully considered the instant petition and its attachments and find Petitioner fails to demonstrate his clear and indisputable right to relief under the well-established threshold requirements for writs of coram nobis.

See Denedo v. United States, 66 M.J. 114, 126–27 (C.A.A.F. 2008) (citations omitted), aff’d and remanded, 556 U.S. 904 (2009); United States v. Chapman, 75 M.J. 598, 601 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. 2016) (citing Denedo). We further con- clude the petition warrants no further discussion nor relief. See United States v. Matias, 25 M.J. 356, 361 (C.M.A. 1987).

Accordingly, it is by the court on this 11th day of April, 2025, ORDERED:

* See this court’s 20 December 2021 order for a summary of Petitioner’s court-martial conviction and its lengthy history before the military appellate courts.

CUI In re Cossio, Misc. Dkt. No. 2025-03

The “Petition for Extraordinary Relief in the Nature of a Writ of Error Co- ram Nobis” is hereby DENIED.

FOR THE COURT

CAROL K. JOYCE Clerk of the Court