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| Frank v. Shartle
Frank v. Shartle
TOBIAS A. FRANK, Petitioner,v.J.T. SHARTLE, Respondent.
This matter comes before the Court upon Petitioner's § 2241 petition, see Docket Entry No. 1, which was followed by Petitioner's submission of the applicable filing fee. See Docket Entry dated Sep. 13, 2013.
Petitioner is a federal inmate currently confined at the FCI Fairton, Fairton, New Jersey. See generally, Docket. Petitioner asserts that his current term of imprisonment resulted from the conviction and sentence rendered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, see Docket Entry No. 1, at 1, and that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the same on direct appeal. See id. at 2. Petitioner omitted to state, but the public record indicates, that Petitioner also sought § 2255 relief from his court of conviction, see Frank v. United States, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124708 (S.D. Ga. Aug. 30, 2013), which court denied Petitioner said relief on multiple grounds. See id.; see also Frank v. United States, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 125040 (S.D. Ga. July 24, 2013) (detailing alternative grounds for dismissal). Moreover, Petitioner's earlier application to his court of conviction, styled as a petition for a coram nobis writ was also denied, and that denial was affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit. See United States v. Frank, 414 F.Appx. 252 (11th Cir. 2011); see also id. at 253, n.1 ("Frank's argument that he was ineligible for § 2255 relief because the statute of limitations has expired is without merit.... Frank seeks to challenge the legality of his sentence. There... is cognizable relief for Frank under § 2255 even though he likely cannot obtain that relief because the § 2255 statute of limitations has expired") (citations omitted).
II. PETITIONER'S CHALLENGES AT BAR
In the within Petition, Petitioner raised two distinct challenges. See generally, Docket Entry No. 1, at 4-10. First, Petitioner alleges that his court of conviction unduly enhanced his sentence. See id. at 4-7 and 8-10 (Petitioner's claims Nos. I, II, IV and V, relying on Alleyne v. United States , 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013)).[1] Second, Petitioner asserts that the Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") unduly deemed Petitioner ineligible for the incentives allowed to the inmates who successfully completed the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program ("RDAP"). See id. at 7-8 (Petitioner's claim No. III).
Petitioner also asserts that he exhausted his administrative remedies since he was not provided with a response from the National Inmate Appeal.[2] However, the exhibits provided by Petitioner indicate that his administrative exhaustion efforts focused solely and entirely on the issue of the allegedly wrongful enhancement of his sentence, and no RDAP challenges were ever raised, moreover duly exhausted. See Docket Entry No. 1, at 11-16.
III. LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY THE RULES OF HABEAS PROCEDURE
Under Habeas Rule 2(e), Petitioner cannot challenge different determinations in a single habeas petition. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Rule 2(e) (applicable to § 2241 matters through Habeas Rule 1(b)); see also Muniz v. Zickefoose, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115766, at *13 (D.N.J. Sept. 30, 2011), aff'd, 460 F.Appx. 165 (3d Cir. 2012). Rather, each determination Petitioner seeks to attack shall be challenged in a separate habeas application.[3] See id. Yet, here, Petitioner does exactly that by conflating his attack on the sentence rendered by the Southern District of Georgia with his challenge to what, allegedly, was BOP's decision as to Petitioner's eligibility for the RDAP incentive.
Because Petitioner's application is in violation of Habeas Rule 2(e), and because his RDAP challenges are facially unexhausted administratively, this Court will: (a) reserve the instant matter for Petitioner's claims challenging the sentence rendered by the Southern District of Georgia; and (b) dismiss Petitioner's RDAP claims as improperly raised in this matter, without prejudice to raising the same upon due exhaustion of Petitioner's administrative remedies.[4]
IV. PETITIONER'S CLAIMS FALL OUTSIDE SECTION 2241 JURISDICTION
Petitioner's attack on his sentence is not cognizable in a § 2241 review.
After his conviction becomes final, a federal prisoner generally may challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence only through a motion filed pursuant to § 2255. See Okereke v. United States , 307 F.3d 117, 120 (3d Cir. 2002). However, the "safety valve" clause of § 2255 allows a petitioner to seek a writ of habeas corpus under § 2241 in the "rare case" in which a § 2255 motion would be "inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention." 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); In re Dorsainvil , 119 F.3d 245, 249-50 (3d Cir. 1997). "Section 2255 is not inadequate or ineffective merely because the sentencing court does not grant relief, the one-year statute of limitations has expired, or the petitioner is unable to meet the stringent gatekeeping requirements of... § 2255." Cradle v. Miner , 290 F.3d 536, 539 (3d Cir. 2002). Rather, a § 2255 motion is inadequate or ineffective "only if it can be shown that some limitation of scope or procedure would prevent a section 2255 proceeding from affording the prisoner a full hearing and adjudication of his claim of wrongful detention." United States v. Brooks , 230 F.3d 643, 648 (3d Cir. 2000) (quoting Leguillou v. Davis , 212 F.2d 681, 684 (3d Cir. 1954) (internal quotation marks omitted).
A section 2255 motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of a conviction where a petitioner "is being detained for conduct that has subsequently been rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision, " and where the petitioner is otherwise barred from filing a second or successive § 2255 petition. In re Dorsainvil , 119 F.3d at 252. In this case, Petitioner cannot avail himself of the "safety valve." He relies on the recent United States Supreme Court case, Alleyne v. United States , 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013), to support his petition. Because an Apprendi v. New Jersey , 530 U.S. 466 (2000) claim, of which an Alleyne claim is an extension, must be brought pursuant to § 2255, not § 2241, see Okereke , 307 F.3d ...