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Nature of Suit Code: 510
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Vacate Sentence
Cause of Action: 28:2255 Motion to Vacate / Correct Illegal Sentence

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America, 

Plaintiff/Respondent,

vs.

Sky Gary Trammell, 

Defendant/Movant.

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No. CR04-50178-PHX-SRB

 CV12-00576-PHX-SRB

ORDER

Defendant/Movant Sky Gary Trammell (Trammell) filed his pro se Motion to Vacate,

Set Aside or Correct Sentence Pursuant to 22 U.S.C. § 2255 on March 19, 2012. The

Government filed its response in opposition on April 30, 2012 arguing that the Motion to

Vacate should be denied because it was a second/successive Petition for which Trammell

failed to obtain proper appellate approval as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h). Trammell

filed a reply entitled "Defendant's Response to Government's Response to Defendant's

Motion to Vacate Set Aside or Correct Sentence" on May 21, 2012. 

In the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation the Magistrate Judge sets out

the procedural history of this case. In 2001 Trammell was convicted in the District of Oregon

after pleading guilty of one count of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud. After serving

his term of imprisonment Trammell began serving a 36 month period of supervised release

in 2004. On December 15, 2004 Trammell's supervision was transferred from Oregon to the

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District of Arizona. After his supervised release was revoked and he was ordered to serve

four months in prison, Trammell failed to self-surrender for his prison sentence. Upon his

apprehension Trammell was charged and eventually pled guilty to a single count of failing

to surrender. US v. Trammell, 2:09CR0026-PHX-SRB. While in prison on his new offense

and for his earlier supervised release violation, Trammell filed a §2255 motion challenging

his Oregon conviction. That petition was ultimately denied in January 2010. 

Trammell's present Motion to Vacate was filed after revocations of supervised release

in his Arizona conviction, 2:09CR0026-PHX-SRB, Doc.78, and in his Oregon conviction

2:04-50178, Doc. 88. In this pending motion he again attacks his underlying conviction for

tax evasion and mail fraud. 

In his Report and Recommendation the Magistrate Judge found that because Trammel

previously challenged his conviction in a § 2255 action the pending Motion to Vacate is a

second or successive motion for which Trammell failed to seek certification from the

appropriate Circuit Court of Appeals before filing as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)

rendering this Court without jurisdiction to consider the motion. The Magistrate Judge also

noted that the motion would be timely if it had sought relief from the 2011 revocation of

supervised release but the motion failed to allege any basis for relief from the 2011

revocation. The Magistrate Judge recommended that Trammell's Motion to Vacate, Set

Aside or Correct Sentence be denied. 

On June 13, 2012 Trammell timely filed a document entitled "Response to Report and

Recommendation by Magistrate." That response requested that the Court consider his earlier

reply entitled, "Response to the Government's Response to Defendant's Motion to Vacate Set

Aside or Correct Sentence" as his response to the Report and Recommendation of the

Magistrate Judge. There is nothing in that response that addresses this Court's jurisdiction

over this second or successive Motion to Vacate or suggests that the Court has any power to

consider it. Trammell also does not assert that he raised any claim for relief from the 2011

revocation of supervised release. 

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IT IS ORDERED overruling Trammell's Response to Report and Recommendation

by Magistrate. (Doc. 7)

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED adopting the Report and Recommendation of the

Magistrate Judge as the Order of this Court. (Doc. 6)

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying Trammell's Motion to Vacate, Set Aside or

Correct Sentence by a Person in Federal Custody because it is a second or successive petition

over which this Court lacks jurisdiction.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a Certificate of Appealability and leave to proceed

in forma pauperis on appeal be denied because denial of the Petition is justified by a plain

procedural bar and jurists of reason would not find the ruling debatable.

DATED this 3rd day of July, 2012.

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