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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2241', '§ 2255', '§ 2241', '§ 2251', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255']

FindACase™ | Damm v. Joyner
Damm v. Joyner
Gregory Paul Damm, #25305-078, Petitioner,
Petitioner Gregory Paul Damm, #25305-078 (“Petitioner”), proceeding pro se, filed a petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (“Petition”), challenging a federal sentence imposed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. (ECF No. 1). Petitioner is a federal inmate incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Estill, South Carolina. (ECF No. 1 at 1). After reviewing the pleadings, the Magistrate Judge assigned to this action[1] prepared a thorough Report and Recommendation (“Report”) and recommends that the Petition be recharacterized as a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 habeas action and that this matter be transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. (ECF No. 10 at 6). The Report sets forth, in detail, the relevant facts and standards of law on this matter, and the Court adopts them without recitation. (ECF No. 10).
The Report was filed by the Magistrate Judge on January 11, 2019 and Petitioner was advised of his right to file objections to that Report. (ECF No. 10 at 6-7). The Magistrate Judge required Petitioner to file objections to the Report by January 25, 2019. (ECF No. 10 at 6-7). Petitioner filed his response on February 4, 2019. (ECF No. 16). Even though the response was technically late, the Court accepts Petitioner's filing.
Where an objection is “nonspecific, unrelated to the dispositive portions of the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, or merely restate[s] . . . claims, ” the Court need not conduct any further review of that objection. Field v. McMaster, 663 F.Supp.2d 449, 452 (D.S.C. 2009); see also McNeil v. S.C. Dept. of Corrections, No. 5:12-2880-MGL, 2013 WL 1102881, at *1 (D.S.C. Mar. 15, 2013) (finding the petitioner's objections to be without merit where the objections were “non-specific, unrelated to the dispositive portions of the Magistrate Judge's Report, and consist[ed] of a reassertion of the arguments” made in the petition); Arbogast v. Spartanburg Cty., No. 07:11-cv-00198-GRA, 2011 WL 5827635, at *2 (D.S.C. Nov. 17, 2011) (finding that the plaintiff's objections were not specific where the objections were “general and conclusory in that they merely reassert[ed] that his conviction was wrongful.”).
The two issues under review are: 1) whether the § 2241 Petition should be recharacterized as a § 2251 petition, and 2) whether this matter should be transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Here, the Report suggests this Court should do both. (ECF No. 10 at 6). Petitioner's response to the Report states “Petitioner has ‘NO' Objections to R&R.” (ECF No. 16). Further, and pursuant to instructions in the Report, Petitioner attached a § 2255 application and accompanying memorandum to his response (ECF No. 16-1) in order to amend his original Petition so as to recharacterize it as a § 2255 petition. (ECF No. 16). After reviewing the Report, and with no specific objections from Petitioner, this Court agrees it would be in the best interest of justice to recharacterize the Petition as a § 2255 petition and to transfer this case to the sentencing court.
After carefully reviewing the applicable laws, the record in this case, as well as the Report, this Court finds the Magistrate Judge's recommendation fairly and accurately summarizes the facts and applies the correct principles of law. Accordingly, the Court adopts the Report. (ECF No. 10). Therefore, the Petition (ECF No. 1) is hereby recharacterized as a § 2255 habeas petition by incorporation of Petitioner's amended petition and memorandum (ECF No. 16-1), ...