Jordan v. Arapahoe County Detention Facility et al

Filing 6

ORDER Of Dismissal. This action is DISMISSED without prejudice. No certificate of appealability will issue. Leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal isdenied for the purpose of appeal. By Judge Lewis T. Babcock on 7/1/2014. (klyon, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Civil Action No. 14-cv-01418-BNB
AARON JORDAN,
Applicant,
v.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF COLORADO,
Respondents.

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

Applicant, Aaron Jordan, is detained at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility in
Centennial, Colorado. He initiated this action on May 20, 2014, by submitting pro se an
Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he
challenges the constitutionality of his criminal conviction. For relief, he seeks monetary
damages.
On May 21, 2014, Magistrate Judge Boyd N. Boland reviewed Applicant’s filing
and determined that it was deficient. Magistrate Judge Boland advised Mr. Jordan that
his claims for money damages are barred by the rule in Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S.
477, 486-87 (1994), which held that a state prisoner may not recover damages under §
1983 if a favorable judgment would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction
unless the conviction has been invalidated. Magistrate Judge Boland instructed Mr.
Jordan that he may seek to invalidate his criminal conviction through a writ of habeas
corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The appropriate remedy in a habeas corpus

proceeding is release from confinement, not damages. See Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411
U.S. 475, 489-90 (2005). Magistrate Judge Boland directed Mr. Jordan to file an
amended Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, on the
court-approved form, to assert the appropriate relief, if he wished to proceed in this
action. Magistrate Judge Boland further instructed Applicant to submit a Prisoner’s
Motion and Affidavit for Leave to Proceed Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 in a Habeas
Corpus Action, or, in the alternative, to pay the $5.00 filing fee. Magistrate Judge
Boland warned Plaintiff in the May 21 Order that failure to cure the deficiencies noted
would result in dismissal of this action without further notice.
On May 27, 2014, the copy of the Order Directing Applicant to Cure Deficiencies
and to File Amended Application (ECF No. 3) that was sent to Mr. Jordan was returned
to the Court as undeliverable. (ECF No. 4). On May 29, 2014, Mr. Jordan paid the
$5.00 filing fee.
Mr. Jordan has now failed to file an amended Application in compliance with the
May 21 Order. Further, he has not filed a notice of change of address with the Court as
required by D.C.COLO.LCivR 11.1(d). Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that this action is DISMISSED without prejudice pursuant to Rule
41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the failure of Plaintiff, Aaron Jordan, to
comply with the May 21, 2014 Order Directing Applicant to Cure Deficiencies and to File
Amended Application and for failure to prosecute. It is
FURTHER ORDERED that no certificate of appealability will issue because
jurists of reason would not debate the correctness of this procedural ruling and Mr.
Jordan has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. It is
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FURTHER ORDERED that leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal is
denied for the purpose of appeal. The Court certifies pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
§ 1915(a)(3) that any appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith. See
Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438 (1962). If Mr. Jordan files a notice of appeal
he must also pay the full $505 appellate filing fee or file a motion to proceed in forma
pauperis in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit within thirty days in
accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 24.
DATED at Denver, Colorado, this 1st day of

July

, 2014.

BY THE COURT:

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

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