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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

John Edward Sharkey, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

Laura Escapule, et al., 

Respondents.

No. CV-14-08180-PCT-JJT

ORDER 

 THIS MATTER is before the Court upon Magistrate Judge David K. Duncan’s 

Report and Recommendation (Doc. 9), filed May 4, 2015, to which Petitioner filed no 

Objection. While Petitioner’s failure to file any objection could serve as a basis for this 

Court to adopt the R&R without further review, the Court has reviewed the Petition, the 

Answer, the exhibits thereto and the R&R on the merits. After considering the above 

filings, the Court will deny the Petition. 

 Judge Duncan is correct in concluding that Petitioner failed to exhaust any of his 

remedies in state court. He did not fairly present his claims to the Arizona Court of 

Appeals by providing that court with the facts underlying his claims or the federal basis 

of those claims, both of which were required for each claim. Moreover, due to his delay 

in presenting those claims, he is now time barred from going back and raising them 

before the proper tribunal because the limitations of Ariz. R. Crim Pr. 32 have been 

exceeded. His claims are thus now subject to a procedural bar, as Judge Duncan 

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correctly concluded. Finally, Petitioner has demonstrated no cause for the default and no 

actual prejudice to excuse such default, nor has he attempted to do so. 

IT IS ORDERED accepting, adopting and incorporating by reference Magistrate 

Judge Duncan’s Report and Recommendation and the analysis contained therein 

(Doc. 9). 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying the Petition for a writ of habeas corpus 

(Doc. 1) for the reasons set forth above and in more detail in the incorporated Report and 

Recommendation. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying a Certificate of Appealability because 

Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. 

 Dated this 26th day of June, 2015. 

 

 Honorable John J. Tuchi 

 United States District Judge 

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