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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-6726

ARGENI BATALDO-CASTILLO,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

WARDEN TRAVIS M. BRAGG,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Greenville. Richard M. Gergel, District 

Judge. (6:15-cv-03717-RMG)

Submitted: January 30, 2017 Decided: March 3, 2017

Before FLOYD and HARRIS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Affirmed as modified by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Argeni Bataldo-Castillo, Appellant Pro Se. Christopher Gibbs, 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Columbia, South Carolina, 

for Appellee. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Argeni Bataldo-Castillo, a federal prisoner, appeals the 

district court’s order accepting the recommendation of the 

magistrate judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 

(2012) petition. It is undisputed that Bataldo-Castillo did not

exhaust his administrative remedies before filing his petition. 

Although the district court denied Bataldo-Castillo’s petition 

with prejudice on the merits, we conclude that the dismissal 

should have been without prejudice for failure to exhaust. See

Timms v. Johns, 627 F.3d 525, 530-31 (4th Cir. 2010). 

Accordingly, we affirm the dismissal order as modified to 

reflect that the dismissal is without prejudice. See 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2106 (2012). We dispense with oral argument because the facts 

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials 

before this court and argument would not aid the decisional 

process.

AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED

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