In re: Larry Charle

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NOT PRECEDENTIAL PER CURIAM OPINION Coram: CHAGARES, VANASKIE and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges. Total Pages: 2. DLD-262

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Case: 17-1966 Document: 003112650133 Page: 1 DLD-262 Date Filed: 06/14/2017 NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ___________ No. 17-1966 ___________ IN RE: LARRY CHARLES, Petitioner ____________________________________ On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Related to E.D. Pa Civ. Nos. 2-13-cv-07548 & 2-14-cv-00189) ____________________________________ Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P. May 25, 2017 Before: CHAGARES, VANASKIE, and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges (Opinion filed: June 14, 2017) _________ OPINION* _________ PER CURIAM In this mandamus petition, Larry Charles “seeks an Order to compel the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to issue a Certificate of Appealability” in connection with a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition he filed in 2013. Because mandamus may “not be used as a substitute for the regular appeals process,” Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Court, 542 U.S. 367, 380–81, (2004), we will deny Charles’ petition. * This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent. Case: 17-1966 Document: 003112650133 Page: 2 Date Filed: 06/14/2017 Charles filed a § 2254 petition in 2013, seeking to attack a 25–50 year sentence imposed after he pleaded no contest to various sex crimes in Philadelphia County. The District Court denied his petition and his request for a certificate of appealability. We denied his request for a certificate of appealability—concluding that “jurists of reason would not debate the District Court’s assessment of his constitutional claims”— and also denied his request for rehearing. C.A. No. 15-3064. The Supreme Court denied his petition for a writ of certiorari, and also his petition for rehearing. Charles v. Harry, 137 S. Ct. 671, reh’g denied, 137 S. Ct. 1369 (2017). Charles has exhausted all avenues to appeal the District Court’s denial of his request for a certificate of appealability—and has lost. He may not now use mandamus as yet another attempt at an appeal. Cheney, 542 U.S. at 380–81. We will deny his petition.1 1 In the alternative, Charles asks us to recall our mandate denying his request for a certificate of appealability—a request that is “regarded as a second or successive application for purposes of [28 U.S.C.] § 2244(b).” Calderon v. Thompson, 523 U.S. 538, 553 (1998). Because Charles cannot meet § 2244(b)’s gatekeeping requirements— he does not claim to have newly discovered evidence of his actual innocence, or rely on a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review—we will not recall our mandate. See United States v. Winkelman, 746 F.3d 134, 135 (3d Cir. 2014). 2

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