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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 13:14:49+00:00

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Christopher H. Steger Magistrate Judge.
TRAVIS R. MCDONOUGH UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
Before the Court is Petitioner Demetrius Byrd's pro se motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence pursuant to Title 28, Section 2255 of the United States Code. (Doc. 601.) For the following reasons, Petitioner's motion will be DENIED.
On March 14, 2017, Petitioner filed a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence pursuant to Title 28, Section 2255 of the United States Code. In his motion, Petitioner argues that, based on the United States Supreme Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016), his prior conviction for possession of a controlled substance for resale under Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-17-417 no longer qualifies as a controlled substance offense, thereby making application of the career-offender enhancement under United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.1 inappropriate. Petitioner's motion is now ripe for the Court's review.
To obtain relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a petitioner must demonstrate “(1) an error of constitutional magnitude; (2) a sentence imposed outside the statutory limits; or (3) an error of fact or law . . . so fundamental as to render the entire proceeding invalid.” Short v. United States, 471 F.3d 686, 691 (6th Cir. 2006) (quoting Mallett v. United States, 334 F.3d 491, 496-97 (6th Cir. 2003)). He “must clear a significantly higher hurdle than would exist on direct appeal” and establish a “fundamental defect in the proceedings which necessarily results in a complete miscarriage of justice or an egregious error violative of due process.” Fair v. United States, 157 F.3d 427, 430 (6th Cir. 1998).
Title 28, Section 2255(f) of the United States Code places a one-year statute of limitations on all petitions for collateral relief under § 2255 running from either: (1) the date when the judgment of conviction becomes final; (2) the date when the impediment to making a motion created by governmental action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States is removed, if the movant was prevented from making a motion by such governmental action; (3) the date when the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if that right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review; or (4) the date when the facts supporting the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence. 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f).
In this case, Petitioner's motion pursuant to Title 28, Section 2255 of the United States Code is not timely. In his motion, Petitioner asserts that his motion is timely because he filed it within one year of the Supreme Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016). Under Title 28, Section 2255(f)(3) of the United States Code, however, Petitioner's motion is considered timely only if Mathis created a newly recognized right that the Supreme Court made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review. In In re Conzelmann, 872 F.3d 375, 376-77 (6th Cir. 2017), the Sixth Circuit held that Mathis did not announce a new rule of constitutional law made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court. To the extent Petitioner contends that Mathis constitutes a new “fact” supporting his claim that he discovered through the exercise of due diligence, that argument also fails. As the Sixth Circuit has explained, Title 28, Section 2255(f)(4) of the United States Code “is directed at the discovery of new facts, not newly-discovered law, ” and Petitioner's motion fails to identify any newly discovered facts. See Phillips v. United States, 734 F.3d 573, 580 (6th Cir. 2013). Accordingly, Petitioner's motion is not timely and is barred by the one-year statute of limitations applicable to petitions for collateral relief under Title 28, Section 2255 of the United States Code.

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