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Parker v. Tatum
Jimmy E. Parker, Jr.
Esker Tatum, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Berlin, New Hampshire
Jimmy E. Parker, Jr., a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire ("FCI Berlin"), has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus (doc. no. 1), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging his federal sentence. The matter is before the court for preliminary review, to determine whether the petition is facially valid and may proceed. See Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases ("§ 2254 Rules"); § 2254 Rule 1(b) (authorizing court to apply § 2254 Rules to § 2241 petitions); LR 4.3(d)(4)(A).
Parker is serving a federal prison sentence imposed in the Middle District of North Carolina, pursuant to his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, and two related firearms charges. See United States v. Parker, 1:05-cr-00158-JAB-1 (M.D. N.C. ) ("Criminal Case") (Judgment entered Oct. 25, 2005), ECF No. 13. Parker's sentence included a "career offender" enhancement. The enhancement was based, in part, on Parker's previous North Carolina conviction for assault with serious bodily injury, pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32. That offense has four elements, one of which is the use of a deadly weapon. Id . Parker claims that he was convicted in state court upon an Alford/nolo contendere plea. Parker challenges the validity of his career offender sentence enhancement, on the basis that he did not agree or admit to the deadly weapon element of the state offense underlying that enhancement.
In general, the court in which a federal defendant was convicted and sentenced has exclusive jurisdiction over postconviction proceedings challenging the validity of the conviction or sentence, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Section 2255(e), known as the "savings clause, " preserves a limited role for the court in the district of a federal inmate's incarceration to exercise jurisdiction, under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, to consider a challenge to the validity of the inmate's detention. See United States v. Barrett, 178 F.3d 34, 49-50 (1st Cir. 1999). Section 2255(e) provides as follows:
"[A]dequacy and effectiveness must be judged ex ante.... [P]ost-conviction relief can be termed inadequate' or ineffective' only when, in a particular case, the configuration of section 2255 is such as to deny a convicted defendant any opportunity for judicial rectification.'" Trenkler v. United States, 536 F.3d 85, 99 (1st Cir. 2008) (emphasis in original) (citation omitted). If nothing prevented the petitioner from raising his § 2241 claims in a first § 2255 motion, he cannot prevail in asserting that the § 2255 process has been inadequate or ineffective to challenge his detention. See generally Bryant, 738 F.3d at 1272; see also Barrett, 178 F.3d at 53. Recourse to the savings clause is allowed "in rare and exceptional circumstances, such as those in which strict adherence to AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions would result in a complete miscarriage of justice, '" such as cases involving a "credible allegation of actual innocence." Trenkler, 536 F.3d at 99 (citation omitted).
II. Parker's Post-Conviction Litigation
After his guilty plea in the Middle District of North Carolina, Parker filed an appeal in the Fourth Circuit, which affirmed his conviction and sentence. See United States v. Parker, No. 05-5132 (4th Cir. Apr. 14, 2006) ("Parker I"), slip op. at 5, Criminal Case ECF No. 23. On March 20, 2007, Parker filed a § 2255 motion in the trial court, Criminal Case, ECF No. 26, which that court denied. Id., ECF No. 55 (order denying § 2255 motion). Parker's appeal of the denial of his first § 2255 ...