UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

CASE NO. 20-CIV-61633-RAR

WILLIAM JAMAL DEMPS,

Petitioner,

v.

MARK S. INCH,

Respondent.

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ORDER AFFIRMING AND ADOPTING 

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION AND DISMISSING CASE

THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon United States Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid’s

Report and Recommendation [ECF No. 7] (“Report”), entered on October 1, 2020. The Report 

recommends that the Court dismiss Petitioner William Jamal Demps’s Petition Under 28 U.S.C. 

Section 2254 For Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody [ECF No. 1] (“Petition”). 

See Report at 5. Specifically, Magistrate Judge Reid notes that this is Petitioner’s third habeas 

petition filed under § 2254 challenging the same state court conviction, and that Petitioner did not 

obtain authorization from the Eleventh Circuit to file this successive habeas petition as required 

under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3).

1 Id. at 2, 5. 

The Report properly notified Petitioner of his right to object to Magistrate Judge Reid’s

findings, as well as the consequences for failing to object. Id. at 5. The time for objections has 

passed, and Petitioner did not file any objections to the Report. 

When a magistrate judge’s “disposition” has been properly objected to, district courts must 

review the disposition de novo. FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b)(3). However, when no party has timely 

1 Petitioner’s prior habeas petitions were filed in Case Nos. 16-CIV-62528-BB and 20-CIV-61437-WPD. 

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objected, “the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record in 

order to accept the recommendation.” FED. R. CIV. P. 72 advisory committee’s notes (citation 

omitted). Although Rule 72 itself is silent on the standard of review, the Supreme Court has 

acknowledged Congress’s intent was to only require a de novo review where objections have been 

properly filed, not when neither party objects. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 150 (1985) (“It 

does not appear that Congress intended to require district court review of a magistrate [judge]’s 

factual or legal conclusions, under a de novo or any other standard, when neither party objects to 

those findings.”). In any event, the “[f]ailure to object to the magistrate [judge]’s factual findings 

after notice precludes a later attack on these findings.” Lewis v. Smith, 855 F.2d 736, 738 (11th 

Cir. 1988) (citing Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404, 410 (5th Cir. 1982)). 

Because Petitioner has not filed an objection to the Report, the Court did not conduct a de 

novo review of Magistrate Judge Reid’s findings. Rather, the Court reviewed the Report for clear 

error. Finding none, it is

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows:

1. The Report [ECF No. 7] is AFFIRMED AND ADOPTED. 

2. The Petition [ECF No. 1] is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction. 

3. No certificate of appealability shall issue. 

4. The Clerk is directed to CLOSE this case and any pending motions are DENIED 

AS MOOT. 

DONE AND ORDERED in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, this 22nd day of October, 2020.

 _________________________________

 RODOLFO A. RUIZ II

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

cc: Pro Se Petitioner

Counsel of record

Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid

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