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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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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Ignacio Romero Romero,

Petitioner,

v. 

Charles L. Ryan, et al.,

Respondents.

No. CV-15-02018-PHX-JJT

ORDER

At issue is the Report and Recommendation (R&R) (Doc. 17) entered by United 

States Magistrate Judge Bridget S. Bade in this matter recommending that the Court deny 

the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as untimely. 

Petitioner filed no objection to the R&R and the time to do so has now passed. As the 

R&R warned, Petitioner’s failure to object results in the Court accepting the R&R 

without further review, and issuing an order of judgment pursuant to those 

recommendations. United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). 

Even were the Court to conduct further review, the R&R correctly concluded that 

the statute of limitations for this 2254 petition expired July 11, 2004. Petitioner did not 

file this petition until more than eleven years latet, and no equitable tolling or other 

exception to that limitations period applies. The Court therefore must deny and dismiss 

the Petition.

IT IS ORDERED denying and dismissing as untimely the Petition for Writ of 

Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying a certificate of appealability in this matter 

because dismissal of the Petition is justified by a plain procedural bar and reasonable 

jurists would not find the ruling debatable. The Clerk of Court shall close this matter.

Dated this 31st day of October, 2016.

Honorable John J. Tuchi

United States District Judge

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