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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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 The Court notes that it has also reviewed the information provided by the

petitioner in his Motion to Enter Newly Discovered Information, as well Two New

Exhibits for Court[‘]s Review Before Final Judgment on Petitioner’s Writ of Federal

Habeas Corpus (Doc. 43). While the Court will grant the motion, the information

provided therein does not persuade the Court that the Magistrate Judge erred in the

conclusions he reached in his Report and Recommendation.

 To the extent that the petitioner’s Notice of Breif [sic] of Possible Tainted

or Corrupted Case (Doc. 47) is intended as a motion seeking the Court to order an

investigation be made of the petitioner’s allegations, it is denied.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Jonathon G. Sperberg, II,

 Petitioner,

vs.

Charles L. Ryan, et al.,

 Respondents.

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No. CV-11-00443-PHX-PGR (JFM)

 ORDER

 

 

Having reviewed de novo the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate

Judge Metcalf in light of the petitioner’s objection (Doc. 38) and amended objection

(Doc. 41) to the Report and Recommendation, the Court finds that the objections

should be overruled and that the petitioner’s habeas petition, filed pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 2254, should be denied.1

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First, the Court agrees with the Magistrate Judge that the petitioner’s claims

set forth in Ground 2 (Ineffective Assistance) and Ground 3 (Disparate Sentencing)

must be dismissed with prejudice as time-barred because they were filed years after

the expiration of the AEDPA’s one-year limitations period, see 28 U.S.C. § 2244, and

the petitioner has not established the existence of either statutory or equitable tolling

sufficient to make the claims timely filed.

Second, the Court also agrees with the Magistrate Judge that the petitioner’s

other two claims, Ground 1 (Self Representation) and Ground 4 (Due Process on

Review), while timely filed, must be dismissed with prejudice because those claims

were not fairly presented to the state courts and are now procedurally defaulted and

the petitioner has not established any legally-acceptable cause for his failure to

properly raise those claims in state court, nor has he demonstrated that a

miscarriage of justice would result if those issues are not addressed on their merits.

Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the petitioner’s Motion to Enter Newly Discovered

Information, as well Two New Exhibits for Court[‘]s Review Before Final Judgment

on Petitioner’s Writ of Federal Habeas Corpus (Doc. 43) is granted.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Magistrate Judge’s Report and

Recommendation (Doc. 37) is accepted and adopted by the Court.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the petitioner’s Petition Under 28 U.S.C 

§ 2254 for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody is denied and that

this action is dismissed with prejudice.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no certificate of appealability shall issue and

that the petitioner is denied leave to appeal in forma pauperis because the dismissal

of the petitioner’s habeas petition is justified by a plain procedural bar and jurists of

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reason would not find the procedural ruling debatable.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall enter judgment

accordingly.

DATED this 25th day of March, 2013.

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