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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 Sentenc

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

NORTHERN DIVISION

BERNETTA LASHAY WILLIS, )

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Petitioner, )

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v. ) Civil Action No. 2:09cv930-MEF

) (WO)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

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Respondent. )

O R D E R

Bernetta Lashay Willis has filed a pro se pleading styled as a “Motion to Waive

Restitution” (Doc. No. 35), wherein she seeks release from her obligation to pay restitution

under an order entered in her criminal case, Case No. 2:06cr71-MEF, based on her inability

to pay. Willis’s pleading was originally docketed in her action challenging her conviction

and sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. However, 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is not a mechanism

by which an order of restitution may be attacked or modified. See Blaik v. United States, 161

F.3d 1341, 1342 (11 Cir. 1998) (“[Section] 2255 cannot be utilized by a federal prisoner th

who challenges only the restitution portion of his sentence because § 2255 affords relief only

to those prisoners who ‘claim [ ] the right to be released’ from custody.”)

Accordingly, the Clerk of this court is hereby DIRECTED to:

1. Docket Willis’s “Motion to Waive Restitution” in her criminal case, Case No. 

Case No. 2:06cr71-MEF, as a “Motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(k) to Modify the Restitution

Payment Schedule Based on Changed Economic Circumstances.”

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2. Strike the same motion from the instant case, Civil Action No. 2:09cv930-MEF.

Done this 18 day of August, 2011. th

 /s/Charles S. Coody 

CHARLES S. COODY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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