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Parties Involved:
Donell Hatcher
Petitioner
Warden Lompoc
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DONELL HATCHER,

Peititioner,

v.

WARDEN LOMPOC,

Respodent.

Case No. 15-cv-00375-HSG (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

Petitioner, a federal prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 

28 U.S.C. § 2241. The petition challenges his 2007 conviction, in federal court in the Northern 

District of Alabama, for which a 200-month sentence was imposed.

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Section 2241 allows “the Supreme Court, any justice thereof, the district courts and any 

circuit judge” to grant writs of habeas corpus “within their respective jurisdictions.” Review of 

the manner of execution of a federal sentence is properly brought as a petition under 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2241. See United States v. Giddings, 740 F.2d 770, 772 (9th Cir. 1984) (presentence time credit 

claim). Section 2241 is also the proper basis for a habeas petition by a state prisoner who is not 

held “pursuant to the judgment of a State court,” 28 U.S.C. §2254, for instance a pre-trial detainee, 

a prisoner awaiting extradition, or a prisoner whose conviction has been reversed on appeal. See 

Hoyle v. Ada County, 501 F.3d 1053, 1058 (9th Cir. 2007) (pre-trial double jeopardy challenge); 

Stow v. Murashige, 389 F.3d 880, 885-88 (9th Cir. 2004) (conviction reversed on appeal); White v. 

Lambert, 370 F.3d 1002, 1006 (9th Cir. 2004), overruled on other grounds by Hayward v. 

 

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Petitioner is currently incarcerated at the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland, 

California, pursuant to writ proceedings relating to his 1993 federal conviction in the Northern 

District of California. See United States v. Bluitt, et al., No. 92-0001 WBS.

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Marshall, 603 F.3d 546, 554 (9th Cir. 2010) (en banc) (listing “awaiting extradition” and pretrial 

detention as examples of when § 2241 applies); McNeely v. Blanas, 336 F.3d 822, 824 n.1 (9th 

Cir. 2003) (pretrial detainee).

 Here, petitioner is not challenging the manner of execution of his federal sentence. 

Rather, he is specifically challenging the validity of his conviction and sentence as imposed. See

Dkt. No. 5 at 2. Specifically, petitioner asserts actual innocence as well as sentencing error. See 

id. at 5-8. A prisoner may not attack collaterally a federal conviction or sentence by way of a 

petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Grady v. United States, 929 

F.2d 468, 470 (9th Cir. 1991). Such a challenge must be brought in the district of conviction via a 

motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. See id. The fact that petitioner has previously filed a Section 

2255 motion that was denied does not alter this conclusion. A federal prisoner may not challenge 

his conviction under Section 2241 simply because, as here, a previous Section 2255 motion was 

denied. See Aronson v. May, 85 S. Ct. 3, 5 (1964); Tripati v. Henman, 843 F.2d 1160, 1163 (9th 

Cir. 1987).

Accordingly, the petition is DISMISSED. The Clerk shall terminate all pending motions, 

enter judgment, and close the file.

In addition, a certificate of appealability is denied because petitioner has not shown “that 

jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the district court was correct in its procedural 

ruling.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

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HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

3/20/2015

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