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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

PINE BLUFF DIVISION

CHARLES EDWARD JONES, SR.

ADC #144544 PLAINTIFF

v. Case No. 5:19-cv-00022-KGB

WENDY KELLEY, Director

Arkansas Department of Correction DEFENDANT

ORDER

The Court has reviewed the Recommended Disposition submitted by United States 

Magistrate Judge Beth Deere (Dkt. No. 9). Plaintiff Charles Edward Jones, Sr. has filed a motion 

for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and a document that was filed as a petition for writ of habeas 

corpus (Dkt. Nos. 1, 2). Additionally, Mr. Jones filed late objections to the Recommended 

Disposition, which the Court received via email on October 10, 2019, and which have been filed 

(Dkt. Nos. 11, 12). Mr. Jones also has filed a motion for order, a motion for summary judgment, 

an amended motion for summary judgment, and a motion for intervention as of right (Dkt. Nos. 

13, 14, 15, 16). After a review of the Recommended Disposition, all of Mr. Jones’s filings in this 

case, as well as a de novo review of the record, the Court adopts the Recommended Disposition as 

its findings in all respects (Dkt. No. 9). 

According to the Recommended Disposition, Mr. Jones filed a motion to amend/correct a 

clerical error on January 25, 2019 (Dkt. No. 5). In that motion, Mr. Jones explained that he did 

not intend to file a federal habeas corpus petition but, rather, intended the documents to be filed as 

exhibits in an existing 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case currently pending before U.S. District Judge Billy 

Roy Wilson, No. 5:18-cv-192-BRW (Dkt. No. 9, at 2). Mr. Jones did not intend to file a new 

federal habeas action or request to proceed in forma pauperis; instead, he simply intended to “add 

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to discovery material for the plaintiff’s exhibits.” (Dkt. Nos. 5, at 1-2; 9, at 2). Mr. Jones’s motion 

was bolstered by the fact that both the habeas corpus petition and the in forma pauperis application 

were styled as pleadings in the Supreme Court of Arkansas (Dkt. No. 9, at 2). The Court 

determines that nothing in Mr. Jones’s subsequent filings alters Judge Deere’s analysis. Therefore, 

the Court adopts the Recommended Disposition, denies as moot all of Mr. Jones’s pending 

motions, and directs the Clerk to close this case.

So ordered this 18th of February, 2020.

Kristine G. Baker

United States District Judge 

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