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Parties Involved:
Paul Dana Williams
Petitioner

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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In re: PAUL DANA WILLIAMS, 

 Movant.

No. 16-8059

(D.C. No. 2:97-CV-00304-CAB)

(D. Wyo.)

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ORDER

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Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.

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Movant Paul Dana Williams has filed a motion for authorization with this court 

seeking permission to file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to challenge 

the use of a prior Wyoming conviction to enhance his federal sentence under the career 

offender sentencing guideline. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3), 2255(h) (providing 

mechanism for authorization). Although the prior conviction at issue is from Wyoming, 

the federal sentence that Mr. Williams seeks to challenge was imposed by the United 

States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Any new § 2255 motion 

challenging that sentence must be filed in the Eastern District of Texas. See Brace v. 

United States, 634 F.3d 1167, 1169 (10th Cir. 2011) (§ 2255 motion must be filed in 

district where sentenced). And to obtain authorization to file a new § 2255 motion, 

Mr. Williams must “move in the appropriate court of appeals for an order authorizing the 

district court to consider the application,” 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). The Tenth Circuit 

is not the appropriate court of appeals to consider Mr. Williams’ motion for 

authorization; Mr. Williams must seek authorization from the Fifth Circuit.

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

June 3, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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Because the statute of limitations is running out on Mr. Williams’ proposed claim, 

which is based on Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), we find it in the 

interest of justice to transfer this motion for authorization to the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Fifth Circuit under 28 U.S.C. § 1631. The Clerk of the Court is therefore 

directed to transfer this matter to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

The motion shall be deemed filed in the Fifth Circuit on June 2, 2016, the date it was 

docketed in this court. See id.

Entered for the Court

Timothy M. Tymkovich

Chief Judge

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