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Parties Involved:
Ray Hobbs
Defendant
Patrick Romes
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

PINE BLUFF DIVISION 

PATRICK ROMES PETITIONER 

v. Case No. 5:14-cv-00002 KGB/HDY 

RAY HOBBS, Director of the 

Arkansas Department of Correction RESPONDENT 

 

ORDER 

The Court has received Proposed Findings and Recommendations from Magistrate Judge 

H. David Young (Dkt. No. 18). After careful review of those Proposed Findings and 

Recommendations, the objections thereto filed by petitioner Patrick Romes (Dkt. No. 19), and a 

de novo review of the record, the Court concludes that the Proposed Findings and 

Recommendations should be, and hereby are, approved and adopted in their entirety as this 

Court’s findings in all respects. The Court denies and dismisses with prejudice Mr. Romes’s 

petition for writ of habeas corpus. Judgment will be entered accordingly. 

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 and Rule 11 of the Rules Governing Section 2554 Cases in 

the United States District Court, the Court must determine whether to issue a certificate of 

appealability in the final order. In § 2254 cases, a certificate of appealability may issue only if 

the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. 28 U.S.C. § 

2253(c)(1)-(2). The Court finds no issue on which Mr. Romes has made a substantial showing of 

a denial of a constitutional right. Thus, the certificate of appealability is denied. 

 SO ORDERED this 18th day of February, 2015. 

 

 _______________________________ 

 Kristine G. Baker 

 United States District Judge 

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