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Alvin Sheroy TERRELL, Petitioner-Appellant v. Warden C. MARIANO, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 14-30847
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Dec. 19, 2014.
    Alvin Sheroy Terrell, Oakdale, LA, pro se.
    Before SMITH, WIENER, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Alvin Sheroy Terrell, federal prisoner # 53907-019, appeals the district court’s denial and dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for habeas corpus relief. Relying on Descamps v. United States, - U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 2276, 186 L.Ed.2d 438 (2013), and Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. 137, 128 S.Ct. 1581, 170 L.Ed.2d 490 (2008), Terrell challenged the enhancement to his sentence pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act. The district court denied relief, concluding that such allegations should be presented' in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion and that Terrell had not established that he was entitled to proceed under the savings clause of § 2255(e), which allows a federal prisoner to challenge his conviction under § 2241 if the remedies provided under § 2255 are “inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.”

A petitioner seeking to establish that his § 2255 remedy was inadequate or ineffective must make a claim (i) “based on a retroactively applicable Supreme Court decision which establishes that the petitioner may have been convicted of a nonexistent offense” that (ii) “was foreclosed by circuit law at the time when the claim should have been raised in the petitioner’s trial, appeal, or first § 2255 motion.” Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243 F.3d 893, 904 (5th Cir.2001). Both Descamps, 133 S.Ct. at 2282, and Begay, 553 U.S. at 144-45, 128 S.Ct. 1581, address sentencing issues and have no effect on whether the facts of Terrell’s case would support his conviction for the substantive offense. See Wesson v. U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont, TX, 305 F.3d 343, 348 (5th Cir.2002). Accordingly, neither Descamps nor Begay is a retroactively available Supreme Court decision indicating that Terrell was convicted of a nonexistent offense. See id. The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. Petitioner’s motion for Appointment of Counsel is DENIED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.