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Parties Involved:
Linda Sanders
Defendant
William Myron Thurman
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

HELENA DIVISION

WILLIAM MYRON THURMAN PETITIONER

VS. CASE NO. 2:06CV00114 SWW/HDY

LINDA SANDERS,

WARDEN, FCI FORREST 

CITY, ARKANSAS RESPONDENT

ORDER

The Court has received proposed Findings and Recommendations from Magistrate

Judge H. David Young. After careful review of those Findings and Recommendations, the

timely objections received thereto, and a de novo review of the record, the Court concludes that

the Findings and Recommendations should be, and hereby are, approved and adopted in their

entirety as this Court's findings in all but the following respect. It does appear that Judgment in

petitioner’s federal criminal case was issued by United States District Judge Joe J. Fisher on

March 15, 1991, not March 2001. 

It is clear that petitioner has not completed the administrative review process outlined

at 28 C.F.R. § 542.10 through 542.19. Before he may seek relief in federal court, petitioner must

file an appeal with the General Counsel, the final step in the process. Until he does so, the Court

does not know what the General Counsel will do with petitioner’s claim, and until the General

Counsel is given an opportunity to act, petitioner has not exhausted his administrative remedies. 

The Office of General Counsel may deny the appeal on the ground that it is untimely or it may

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allow petitioner to file the appeal out of time and rule on the merits.

Because petitioner has not shown that such an appeal would be futile, the Court

dismisses his petition for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies. Judgment will be

entered accordingly.

IT IS SO ORDERED this 14th day of August 2006.

/s/Susan Webber Wright

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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