Martin v. United States of America

Filing 24

ORDER accepted and adopted in full re: 23 Report and Recommendation. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. 7) is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 11 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, the Court declines to issue a certificate of appealability, because reasonable jurists would not find the Courts ruling debatable. Signed by Judge Rosemary Marquez on 2/13/2018. (MCO)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Jerry Emerson Martin, Petitioner, 10 11 ORDER v. 12 No. CV-15-00525-TUC-RM United States of America, et al., 13 Respondents. 14 15 On January 23, 2018, Magistrate Judge Bernado P. Velasco issued a Report and 16 Recommendation (Doc. 23) recommending that this Court dismiss Petitioner Jerry 17 Martin’s First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. 7) for lack of 18 jurisdiction. No objections to the Report and Recommendation were filed. 19 A district judge must “make a de novo determination of those portions” of a 20 magistrate judge’s “report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which 21 objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). The advisory committee’s notes to Rule 22 72(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure state that, “[w]hen no timely objection is 23 filed, the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record 24 in order to accept the recommendation” of a magistrate judge. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b) 25 advisory committee’s note to 1983 addition. See also Johnson v. Zema Sys. Corp., 170 26 F.3d 734, 739 (7th Cir. 1999) (“If no objection or only partial objection is made, the 27 district court judge reviews those unobjected portions for clear error.”); Prior v. Ryan, 28 CV 10-225-TUC-RCC, 2012 WL 1344286, at *1 (D. Ariz. Apr. 18, 2012) (reviewing for 1 clear error unobjected-to portions of Report and Recommendation). 2 The Court has reviewed Judge Velasco’s Report and Recommendation, the 3 parties’ briefs, and the record. The Court finds no error in Judge Velasco’s Report and 4 Recommendation. Accordingly, 5 6 IT IS ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 23) is accepted and adopted in full. 7 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas 8 Corpus (Doc. 7) is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The Clerk of Court is directed to 9 enter judgment accordingly and close this case. 10 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 11 of the Rules Governing 11 Section 2254 Cases, the Court declines to issue a certificate of appealability, because 12 reasonable jurists would not find the Court’s ruling debatable. See Slack v. McDaniel, 13 529 U.S. 473, 478, 484 (2000).1 14 Dated this 13th day of February, 2018. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 28 Although Petitioner has brought his claims in a § 2241 petition, a certificate of appealability is required where a § 2241 petition attacks the petitioner’s conviction or sentence. See Porter v. Adams, 244 F.3d 1006 (9th. Cir. 2001). -2-

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