Case Name: John Wesley ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael PETTIFORD, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-12-16
Citations: 115 F. App'x 228
Docket Number: No. 04-60857
Parties: John Wesley ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael PETTIFORD, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 115
Pages: 228–229

Head Matter:
John Wesley ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael PETTIFORD, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 04-60857.
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Decided Dec. 16, 2004.
John Wesley Robinson, Yazoo City, MS, for Petitioner-Appellant.
Before KING, Chief Judge, and DeMOSS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
John Wesley Robinson, federal prisoner # 17512-018, appeals from the judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus petition. Robinson contends that the district court erred by holding that he had failed to satisfy the requirements of Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243 F.3d 893 (5th Cir.2001), to pursue 28 U.S.C. § 2241 relief because he relied on the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision in Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36, 113 S.Ct. 1913, 123 L.Ed.2d 598 (1993), for his underlying habeas claim. In Stinson, the Supreme Court held, inter alia, that the commentaries to the sentencing guidelines are binding in most instances. See Stinson, 508 U.S. at 43-47, 113 S.Ct. 1913. Robinson argues that relief on his claim was not possible until 1999, when the Eleventh Circuit decided United States v. Gallo, 195 F.3d 1278 (11th Cir.1999), in which the Eleventh Circuit relied on Stinson to hold that sentencing guidelines commentary requiring a finding of reasonable foreseeability before adjustment of a defendant's offense level for possession of a firearm by a coconspirator was binding. Gallo, 195 F.3d at 1283.
Robinson has not shown that the district court erred by dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. First, Stinson was decid ed in 1998, before Robinson was convicted. Thus, Robinson could have relied on Stinson during his sentencing, on direct appeal, or in his previous 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding. Robinson thus does not rely on retroactive application of a Supreme Court opinion for his claim. See Reyes-Requena, 243 F.3d at 904.
AFFIRMED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.