Flenoid v. USA

Filing 5

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER re: 4 MOTION to Alter Judgment filed by Petitioner Larry Flenoid. The motion is DENIED with prejudice. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court will not issue a certificate of appealability. Signed by District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on 12/2/15. (CAR)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
LARRY FLENOID,
Movant,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Respondent,

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No. 4:15CV1689 RWS

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Larry Flenoid moves for relief from judgment. The motion is denied.
On November 13, 2015, I denied Flenoid’s § 2255 motion as successive.
Flenoid argues that the arguments he made in the motion could not have been
made in his original motion, and therefore, his motion was not successive.
Flenoid believes that the Court recently modified the monetary penalty
portion of his criminal judgment, which assessed a fine of $1,963.36. See United
States v. Flenoid, 4:03CR501 CDP. In 2011, Flenoid brought a § 2254 habeas
petition in this Court, challenging the validity of his state court conviction for
murder, kidnapping, assault, and armed criminal action.

Flenoid v. Koster,

4:11CV330 CDP. After that case had been dismissed and fully appealed, Flenoid
filed a motion for reimbursement of court fees that had been paid towards the
criminal fine in his 2003 case. The Court denied the motion because the fees were

not related to his state habeas case. Flenoid believes that the denial of his motion
was a modification of his criminal judgment. He is wrong. The denial of the
motion in the state habeas case had no effect on how the fine is collected.
Flenoid’s complaint really goes to the requirement that he pay the fine. He
could have challenged the fine in his original § 2255 motion. As a result, this
action is successive, and he is not entitled to relief.
Finally, Flenoid has failed to demonstrate that jurists of reason would find it
debatable whether he is entitled to relief.

Thus, the Court will not issue a

certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c).
Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Larry Flenoid’s motion for relief from
judgment [ECF No. 4] is DENIED with prejudice.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court will not issue a certificate of
appealability.
Dated this 2nd day of December, 2015.

RODNEY W. SIPPEL
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE