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Timestamp: 2016-12-08 18:19:22
Document Index: 216495065

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

In 1999, Petitioner filed a motion pursuant to § 2255; that motion was denied. Jones v. United States, Case No. 99-154-PER (S.D. Ill., filed March 1, 1999). Petitioner appealed, but the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied issuance of a certificate of appealability. Jones v. United States, Case No. 99-3960 (7th Cir., mandate issued October 13, 2000). Petitioner filed the instant motion under § 2255 on January 29, 2007. In this motion, Petitioner argues that his sentence is unconstitutional, and was invalidated by United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005).
In this case, where it is clear that Petitioner has already filed one collateral attack on his conviction, the Court is required to construe the instant motion as a second or successive collateral attack. United States v. Lloyd, 398 F.3d 978, 980 (7th Cir. 2005). Furthermore,
(2) a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable. 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
Unlike the former standard, under which a second petition could be pursued unless the government established that it was an abuse of the writ, see McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 477, 494-5, 111 S.Ct. 1454, 1461, 1470-71, 113 L.Ed.2d 517 (1991), the new prior-approval device is self-executing. From the district court's perspective, it is the allocation of subject-matter jurisdiction to the court of appeals. A district court must dismiss a second or successive petition, without awaiting any response from the government, unless the court of appeals has given approval for its filing.
Even an explicit consent by the government to beginning the case in the district court would be ineffectual; the power to authorize its commencement does not reside in either the district court or the executive branch of government. A second or successive collateral attack may no more begin in the district court than a criminal prosecution may commence in the court of appeals.
Nunez v. United States, 96 F.3d 990, 991 (7th Cir. 1996); Roldan v. United States, 96 F.3d 1013, 1014 (7th Cir. 1996). Because there is nothing in the record to establish that petitioner has sought and obtained a certification from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to pursue this second motion under § 2255, this Court is without jurisdiction to entertain the motion. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255, ¶ 8; Nunez v. United States, 96 F.3d 990, 991 (7th Cir. 1996).
Accordingly, Petitioner's motion under § 2255 is DENIED for lack of jurisdiction, and this action is DISMISSED with prejudice.