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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

WILLIAM McCONNICO, )

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Petitioner, )

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v. ) Civil Action No. 2:09cv418-TMH

) (WO) 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

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Respondent. )

O R D E R

William McConnico has filed a pro se pleading styled as a “Motion to Correct or

Modify or Otherwise Adjust Repayment of Restitution” (Doc. No. 1), wherein he seeks

modification of an order of restitution entered in his criminal case, Case No. 2:93cr122-

TMH, based on his changed economic circumstances. McConnico’s pleading was originally

docketed as a motion to vacate, set aside or correct sentence in a civil action under 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) th

(“[Section] 2255 cannot be utilized by a federal prisoner 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 McConnico’s “Motion to Correct or Modify or Otherwise Adjust

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Repayment of Restitution” in his criminal case, Case No. 2:93cr122-TMH, as a “Motion

under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(k) to Modify the Restitution Payment Schedule Based on Changed

Economic Circumstances.”

2. Strike the same motion from the instant case, Civil Action No. 2:09cv418-TMH.

3. Close Civil Action No. 2:09cv418-TMH.

Done this 5 day of August, 2010 th

 /s/Wallace Capel, Jr. 

WALLACE CAPEL, JR.

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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