Purdon v. Schriro et al

Filing 18

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION 16 of the Magistrate Judge. The Clerk shall enter judgment denying 1 Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The Clerk shall terminate this action. Signed by Judge Neil V Wake on 12/21/09. (LSP)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 v. Dora B. Schriro, et al., Respondents. Dennis Wayne Purdon, Petitioner, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. CV 08-974 PHX-NVW (JCG) ORDER IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Pending before the court is the Report and Recommendation ("R&R") of Magistrate Judge Guerin (Doc. # 16) regarding petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Doc. # 1). The R&R recommends that the Petition be denied. The Magistrate Judge advised the parties that they had ten days to file objections to the R&R. (R&R at 7 (citing 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)). Petitioner filed objections in the form of a letter on December 1, 2009. (Doc. # 17.) The court has considered the objections and attachments and has reviewed the Report and Recommendation de novo. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b); 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (stating that the court must make a de novo determination of those portions of the Report and Recommendation to which specific objections are made). The court agrees with the Magistrate Judge's determinations, accepts the recommended decision within the meaning of Rule 72(b), Fed. R. Civ. P., and overrules Petitioner's objections. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (stating that the district court "may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in

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part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate"). Insofar as the Magistrate Judge also ruled on any non-dispositive matters, error may not be assigned to any defect in those rulings to the extent that an aggrieved party did not file a timely objection. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a) ("A party may serve and file objections to the order within 10 days after being served with a copy [of the magistrate's order]. A party may not assign as error a defect in the order not timely objected to."). The absence of a timely objection precludes later assignment of error in this court or in any higher court of the non-dispositive rulings of a magistrate judge. Simpson v. Lear Astronics Corp., 77 F.3d 1170, 1174 (9th Cir. 1996); Philipps v. GMC, 289 F.3d 1117, 1120-21 (9th Cir. 2002). IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge (Doc. # 16) is accepted. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court enter judgment denying Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. # 1.) The Clerk shall terminate this action. DATED this 21st day of December, 2009.

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