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                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                       Tenth Circuit
                   UNITED STATES CO URT O F APPEALS
                                                                      May 16, 2006
                          FO R TH E TENTH CIRCUIT                 Elisabeth A. Shumaker
                                                                      Clerk of Court

 RICK Y LEE JONES,

             Petitioner-A ppellant,
                                                       No. 05-3288
 v.                                            (D.C. No. 05-CV-3042-RDR)
                                                       (D. Kansas)
 W ARD EN GALLEGOS,

             Respondent-Appellee.

                          OR D ER AND JUDGM ENT *

Before H EN RY , M U RPH Y, and O ’BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

      After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined

unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of

this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is

therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.

      *
        This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the
doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court
generally disfavors the citation of orders and judgments; nevertheless, an order
and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th Cir. R. 36.3.
      Ricky Lee Jones, proceeding pro se, appeals an order entered by the United

States District Court for the District of Kansas dismissing his petition under 28

U.S.C. § 2241 for writ of habeas corpus.

      In 1996, Petitioner Jones w as convicted in the United States D istrict Court

for the Southern District of Florida of possession of marijuana, carrying a firearm

during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense, being a felon in possession of

a firearm, and possession of an unregistered shotgun. On direct appeal, the

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed his convictions.

See United States v. Jones, Nos. 96-5089 and 97-4285 (11th Cir. Dec. 17, 1997)

(unpublished). In 1998, he filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the district

court for the Southern District of Florida, which was denied. See United States v.

Jones, No. 98-CV-885 (S.D. Florida Sept. 15, 1999). He did not appeal.

      In January 2005, while incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in

Leavenworth, Kansas, Ricky Jones filed a § 2241 petition in the District of

Kansas challenging his sentence under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220

(2005). The district court dismissed the § 2241, concluding that the appropriate

remedy was under § 2255 in the district court for the Southern District of Florida

where Petitioner w as convicted, and not under § 2241 in the District of Kansas.

This appeal followed.

      W e review de novo a district court’s dismissal of a petition under § 2241

for w rit of habeas corpus. See Bradshaw v. Story, 86 F.3d 164, 166 (10th Cir.

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1996).

         On appeal, Petitioner asserts that the remedy under § 2255 is inadequate or

ineffective because he has previously been denied such relief, and that he should

be allow ed to raise his Booker sentencing claim in a § 2241 petition because the

Booker error at his trial in the district court for the Southern District of Florida

caused a miscarriage of justice.

         Upon review of the record and appellate brief, the court concludes that the

district court was correct in dismissing the § 2241 petition. A § 2241 petition and

a § 2255 motion have distinct purposes. A § 2241 petition is not the proper

means to raise a Booker sentencing claim as alleged by Petitioner. A motion

under § 2255 in the district court for the Southern District of Florida is the

exclusive remedy for Petitioner to challenge his sentence unless there is a

showing that the remedy is inadequate or ineffective. See Haugh v. Booker, 210

F.3d 1147, 1149 (10th Cir. 2000). Courts have stressed that the remedy under

§ 2255 is inadequate or ineffective only in “extremely limited circumstances.”

Caravalho v. Pugh, 177 F.3d 1177, 1178 (10th Cir. 1999). The fact that a

petitioner is precluded from filing another § 2255 motion fails to establish that

the remedy is inadequate. See id. at 1179. And although second or successive

applications are restricted under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty

Act, they are not prohibited. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(2), 2255; Felker v.

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Turpin, 518 U.S. 651, 664 (1996). Because Petitioner Jones has an adequate and

effective remedy under § 2255 in the district court for the Southern District of

Florida, § 2241 is inappropriate.

      Accordingly, the district court’s order and judgment are AFFIRM ED.

Petitioner’s motion for judicial notice is GR ANTED . Petitioner’s motion for

appointment of counsel is DENIED. The mandate shall issue forthwith.

                                              Entered for the Court

                                              Per Curiam