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FindACase | Santiago v. Philadelphia City, U.S.A.
Santiago v. Philadelphia City, U.S.A.
PHILADELPHIA CITY, U.S.A., et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff Roylando Santiago, III, a prisoner incarcerated at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, initiated this civil action in January of 2018 by filing a Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and a pro se Complaint. In an Order docketed February 2, 2018, the Court denied the Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis without prejudice because Santiago failed to file a certified copy of his prison account statement for the six-month period prior to filing his Complaint as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2). (ECF No. 2.) When Santiago failed to cure that defect in the thirty-day time period allotted by the Order, the Court dismissed his case without prejudice for failure to prosecute in an Order entered on the docket March 13, 2018. (ECF No. 3.) On April 30, 2018, the Court received from Santiago a Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis, a Prison Account Statement,  and an Amended Complaint. Having considered those filings, the Court will vacate its Order dismissing this case for failure to prosecute in light of Santiago's pro se status, grant Santiago leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and dismiss the Amended Complaint with prejudice as factually frivolous.
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The Court grants Santiago leave to proceed in forma pauperis because it appears that he is not capable of paying the fees to commence this civil action. As Santiago is proceeding in forma pauperis, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and (ii) apply, which require the Court to dismiss the Amended Complaint if it is frivolous or fails to state a claim. A complaint is frivolous if it “lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact.” Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989). It is legally baseless if “based on an indisputably meritless legal theory, ” Deutsch v. United States, 67 F.3d 1080, 1085 (3d Cir. 1995), and factually baseless “when the facts alleged rise to the level of the irrational or the wholly incredible.” Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 33 (1992). To survive dismissal for failure to state a claim, the complaint must contain “sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quotations omitted). Conclusory statements and naked assertions will not suffice. Id. As Santiago is proceeding pro se, the Court must construe his allegations liberally. Higgs v. Att'y Gen., 655 F.3d 333, 339 (3d Cir. 2011).
Santiago's allegations are nonsensical and nothing in his Amended Complaint gives rise to a logical basis for a claim. Accordingly, the Court will dismiss this case as factually frivolous. See Golden v. Coleman, 429 Fed.Appx. 73, 74 (3d Cir. 2011) (per curiam) (dismissing case as factually frivolous when plaintiff alleged that the defendants “violated his constitutional rights by planting ‘Government Micro Eye Cameras' in his food and broadcasting images obtained from those cameras on prison television”). Furthermore, in the event Santiago is attempting to challenge his criminal convictions by seeking relief from “the liability” of his “civil” judgment (Am. Compl. at 10), he may only do so by filing in federal court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus after exhausting state remedies. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254; Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475, 500 (1973).

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