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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-3596

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Vincent C. Donovan, *

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Appellant, *

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v. * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the

Alberto Gonzales, United States * District of South Dakota.

Attorney General; R. Martinez, *

Warden, FPC Yankton, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellees. *

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Submitted: July 3, 2006

Filed: July 5, 2006 

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Before RILEY, MAGILL, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Vincent Donovan is serving a 212-month prison sentence imposed in the

Eastern District of Wisconsin after a jury found him guilty of participating in a drug

conspiracy and related offenses. See United States v. Donovan, 24 F.3d 908 (7th

Cir.), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 905 (1994). From his current place of confinement at the

Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota, Donovan filed this 28 U.S.C. § 2241

petition in June 2005, challenging the government’s legal authority to charge him

under 21 U.S.C. § 841, because “he was/is not [a member] of the ‘class’ of persons

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1The Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, United States District Judge for the

District of South Dakota.

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whom the statute sweeps into its criminal ambit.” The district court1

 dismissed

Donovan’s petition, finding his inability to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion

did not make section 2255 inadequate or ineffective, and he appeals. Following

careful review, see Hill v. Morrison, 349 F.3d 1089, 1091 (8th Cir. 2003), we affirm

for the reasons stated by the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. The government’s

pending motion to expand the appellate record and take judicial notice of the previous

28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition is granted.

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