Pinson v. Berkebile

Filing 28

ORDER dismissing this action by Judge Lewis T. Babcock on 8/13/14. (dkals, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Civil Action No. 14-cv-00410-BNB
JEREMY PINSON,
Applicant,
v.
DAVID BERKEBILE,
Respondent.

ORDER TO DISMISS

Applicant, Jeremy Pinson, is a prisoner in the custody of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons (BOP) at ADX in Florence, Colorado. Applicant initiated this action by filing pro
se an Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and a
Prisoner’s Motion and Affidavit for Leave to Proceed Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 in a
Habeas Action. Applicant was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to
28 U.S.C. § 1915.
In an order filed on February 19, 2014, Magistrate Judge Boyd N. Boland
directed Respondent to file a Preliminary Response limited to addressing the affirmative
defense of exhaustion of administrative remedies. Respondent filed a Response on
March 12, 2014, and Applicant filed a Reply on April 7, 2014. On June 10, 2014, the
Court addressed Respondent’s affirmative defense of exhaustion of administrative
remedies and ordered that (1) the claims associated with IR Nos. 2458043 and
2445224 are dismissed without prejudice for failure to exhaust administrative remedies;
and (2) the claims associated with IR Nos. 2451286 and 2451280 are dismissed on the

merits with prejudice. In the June 10, 2014 Order, the Court also directed Respondent
to file a Supplement and address whether the claims associated with IR No. 2399367
should be dismissed based on the mixed petition rule, since two of the claims are
unexhausted. Respondents also were directed to address whether the unexhausted
claims should be dismissed as procedurally defaulted.
Respondent filed a Supplement on June 17, 2014, and asserted that Applicant
no longer has an administrative remedy regarding the two claims that are unexhausted
and the mixed petition rule does not apply. Applicant filed a Reply on June 23, 2014,
and stated that an administrative remedy remains available because the Bureau of
Prisons’ policy permits out-of-time appeals. Based on the information provided by
Respondent in the Supplement and a review of the Preliminary Response at Ex. 6, ECF
No. 10-7, Magistrate Judge Boland then entered an order on July 15, 2014, directing
Respondent to file a second Supplement.
Magistrate Judge Boland found that more information was necessary to
determine if the two claims were properly exhausted and not procedurally defaulted.
Specifically, Respondent was directed to state (1) what procedural error was found by
the Regional Director in the disciplinary proceeding for IR 2399367; (2) did the
Disciplinary Hearing Officer (DHO) reconsider the hearing results in IR No. 2399367
and address the procedural error; (3) how did the procedural error affected the outcome
of the disciplinary proceeding; and (4) did Applicant appeal the results of the
reconsideration.
After requesting and being granted an extension of time, Respondent filed a
Second Supplement on July 29, 2014. Respondent states in the July 29 Supplement
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that the Regional Director returned IR No. 2399367 to the DHO, who held a rehearing
and sustained the previous findings and sanctions, but due to an administrative
oversight a DHO report for the rehearing was not completed or delivered to Applicant.
Respondent further states that due to passage of time and the unavailability of the
rehearing DHO report he will expunge IR No. 2399367 and restore Applicant’s loss of
the fourteen days of good conduct time that was imposed as a sanction.
Finding that Applicant received the relief he requested, the claims regarding IR
No. 2399367 will be dismissed with prejudice. Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that the Application is denied and the action is dismissed. It is
FURTHER ORDERED that the claims associated with IR No. 2399367 are
dismissed with prejudice.
DATED at Denver, Colorado, this 13th

day of

August

, 2014.

BY THE COURT:

s/Lewis T. Babcock
LEWIS T. BABCOCK, Senior Judge
United States District Court

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