Ross #470131 v. Davis
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ORDER ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION 20 ; signed by Judge R. Allan Edgar (Judge R. Allan Edgar, cam)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
NORTHERN DIVISION
TERRELL VASHON, ROSS
Petitioner,
v.
Case No. 2:09-cv-75
HON. R. ALLAN EDGAR
BARRY DAVIS,
Respondent.
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Petitioner Terrell Vashon Ross, a Michigan state prisoner in the custody of the Michigan
Department of Corrections, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On
July 12, 2011, Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley submitted his report and recommendation.
[Doc. No. 20]. It is recommended that the habeas petition be denied and dismissed with prejudice,
and that a certificate of appealablity be denied under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2).
Petitioner Ross has not timely filed any objections to the report and recommendation. After
reviewing the record, the Court ACCEPTS and ADOPTS the report and recommendation pursuant
to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) and W.D. Mich. LCivR 72.3(b). The Court concludes that the habeas
petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is without merit. The habeas petition shall be DENIED
and DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
If petitioner Ross files a notice of appeal, it will be treated as an application for a certificate
of appealability which shall be DENIED pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); Fed. R. App. P.
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22(b)(1); and Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000), for the same reasons expressed in the
report and recommendation. Petitioner Ross has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a
federal constitutional right. Reasonable jurists could not find that dismissal of the habeas petition
is debatable or erroneous.
The Court CERTIFIES pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(3) and Fed. R. App. P. 24(a) that any
appeal from the decision and judgment in this case would be frivolous and not taken in good faith.
A separate judgment will enter.
SO ORDERED.
Dated: August 5, 2011.
/s/
R. Allan Edgar
R. ALLAN EDGAR
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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