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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 DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

NORTHERN DIVISION

TIMMY GEORGE PERKINS, ) 

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Petitioner, )

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v. ) Civil Action No. 2:14cv1046-WKW

 ) (WO) 

CARTER F. DAVENPORT, et al., )

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Respondents. )

RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE

Petitioner Timmy George Perkins (“Perkins”), a state inmate at St. Clair Correctional

Facility, in Springville, Alabama, filed this pro se petition seeking habeas corpus relief under

28 U.S.C. § 2254. Doc. No. 1. In the petition, Perkins challenges the validity of his 2011

convictions for two counts of first-degree sodomy, in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County,

Alabama. Id. at 1.

DISCUSSION

Title 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d) provides, in pertinent part:

Where an application for a writ of habeas corpus is made by a person

in custody under the judgment and sentence of a State court of a State which

contains two or more Federal judicial districts, the application may be filed in

the district court for the district wherein such person is in custody or in the

district court for the district within which the State court was held which

convicted and sentenced him and each of such district courts shall have

concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the application.

28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Thus, petitions for writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C.

§ 2254 may be filed either in the federal district court for the district of the state court of

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conviction or the federal district court in the district of incarceration.

Perkins was convicted in Calhoun County, Alabama, and is incarcerated at the St.

Clair Correctional Facility. Calhoun County falls within the Northern District of Alabama.

The St. Clair Correctional Facility (in Springville, Alabama) is located in St. Clair County,

Alabama, and also falls within the Northern District of Alabama. Because neither Perkins’s

place of conviction nor his place of incarceration falls within the Middle District of

Akabama, this court does not have jurisdiction to entertain his § 2254 petition.

Under 28 U.S.C. § 1631, a court that finds it lacks jurisdiction to entertain a civil

action may, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action to any other court in which

the action could have been brought when it was filed. Because Perkins is proceeding pro se

and seeks habeas corpus relief, the court believes it would be in the interest of justice to

transfer this case to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

under § 1631.

CONCLUSION

Accordingly, it is the RECOMMENDATION of the Magistrate Judge that this case

be TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.

It is further

ORDERED that the parties are DIRECTED to file any objections to the

Recommendation on or before October 27, 2014. Any objections filed must specifically

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identify the findings in the Magistrate Judge’s Recommendation to which a party objects. 

Frivolous, conclusive or general objections will not be considered by the District Court. The

parties are advised that this Recommendation is not a final order of the court; therefore, it is

not appealable.

Failure to file written objections to the proposed findings and recommendations in the

Magistrate Judge's report shall bar the party from a de novo determination by the District

Court of issues covered in the report and shall bar the party from attacking on appeal factual

findings in the report accepted or adopted by the District Court except upon grounds of plain

error or manifest injustice. Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404 (5th Cir. 1982). See Stein

v. Reynolds Securities, Inc., 667 F.2d 33 (11th Cir. 1982). See also Bonner v. City of

Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206 (11th Cir. 1981) (en banc) (adopting as binding precedent all of the

decisions of the former Fifth Circuit handed down prior to the close of business on

September 30, 1981).

DONE, this 14th day of October, 2014.

 /s/Wallace Capel, Jr. 

WALLACE CAPEL, JR.

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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