Gates v. Russell

Filing 7

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER... IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that petitioner's application to amend his petition [Doc.# 6 ] is DENIED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no certificate of appealability shall issue. Signed by District Judge Ronnie L. White on 12/15/2014. (NEB)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
NATHANIEL GATES ,

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Petitioner,
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TERRY RUSSELL,
Respondent.

No. 4:14CV1931 RLW

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
This matter is before the Court on petitioner's post-dismissal motion to amend his
application for writ of habeas corpus.

This action was dismissed by this Court on November

25, 2014.
After reviewing the proposed amended petition, the Court will decline to reopen this
action.

As the Court set forth in its prior Memorandum and Order and accompanying Order of

Dismissal, petitioner is not entitled to relief under habeas corpus.

Moreover, even if petitioner

could attain relief under habeas corpus, his petition would have to be summarily dismissed due
to petitioner's failure to fully exhaust his state remedies.

Nothing in the amended petition

remedies the grounds under which the prior petition was dismissed.

As such, petitioner' s

request to reopen this action and file an amended petition will be denied.
Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that petitioner' s application to amend his petition [Doc.
#6] is DENIED.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no certificate of appealability shall issue.
Dated this 15 1h day of December, 2014.

RONNIE L. WHITE
UNITED STA TES DISTRICT JUDGE

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