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Date Created: 2023-03-03 19:00:42.918821+00
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Case: 21-50077        Document: 00516664535             Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/03/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                       Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 21-50077
                                    Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                    ____________                                 March 3, 2023
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
   Todd Ricks,                                                                       Clerk

                                                                  Petitioner—Appellant,

                                            versus

   Warden FNU LNU, FCI Bastrop,

                                               Respondent—Appellee.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Western District of Texas
                               USDC No. 1:19-CV-1041
                     ______________________________

   Before Stewart, Dennis, and Willett, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Todd Ricks, federal prisoner # 83035-180, appeals from the dismissal
   without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition
   challenging the legality of his sentences for possession of a firearm and
   ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm in furtherance of
   drug trafficking, and maintaining a house used for manufacturing

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 21-50077      Document: 00516664535           Page: 2   Date Filed: 03/03/2023

                                     No. 21-50077

   methamphetamine. The district court determined that Ricks could not
   challenge his sentence under § 2241 because he failed to satisfy the “savings
   clause” of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e).
          A § 2255 motion is the primary vehicle for collaterally attacking a
   federal sentence. Pack v. Yusuff, 218 F.3d 448, 451 (5th Cir. 2000). However,
   a prisoner may challenge the basis of his federal custody in a § 2241 petition
   if he shows that the remedy under § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to test
   the legality of his detention. § 2255(e); Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243
   F.3d 893, 901 (5th Cir. 2001). To make that showing, a prisoner must present
   a claim “(i) that is based on a retroactively applicable Supreme Court
   decision which establishes that [he] may have been convicted of a nonexistent
   offense and (ii) that was foreclosed by circuit law at the time when the claim
   should have been raised in the petitioner’s trial, appeal, or first § 2255
   motion.” Reyes-Requena, 243 F.3d at 904.
          The district court correctly concluded that Ricks had failed to identify
   a retroactively applicable Supreme Court decision establishing that he may
   have been convicted of a nonexistent offense. Ricks essentially repeats those
   arguments on appeal. He accordingly fails to show that the district court
   erred by dismissing his § 2241 petition for lack of jurisdiction. See Jeffers v.
   Chandler, 253 F.3d 827, 830 (5th Cir. 2001).
          AFFIRMED.

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