VOLZ v. ROZUM et al

Filing 29

ORDER THAT THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDAITON OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DAVID R. STRAWBRIDGE DATED JANUARY 29, 2010IS APPROVED AND ADOPTED, ETC. PETITIONER'S OBJECTIONS TO THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE STRAWBRIDGE, ETC, THE PETIITON FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS BY A PERSON IN STATE CUSTODY ARE OVERRULED. PETIITONER'S MOTION TO PROCEED NUNC PRO TUNC IS DENIED. A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WILL NOT ISSUE FOR THE GROUNDS ON WHICH THE COURT DENIES RELIEF, ETC.. SIGNED BY HONORABLE JAN E. DUBOIS ON 8/5/10. 8/5/10 ENTERED AND COPIES MAILED, E-MAILED AND FAXED. (COPY TO PRO SE)(lvj, )

VOLZ v. ROZUM et al

Doc. 29

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JOHN JOSEPH VOLZ Petitioner, v. GERALD L. ROZUM, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, and THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Respondents. : : : : : : : : : : : CIVIL ACTION

NO. 09-0885

ORDER AND NOW, this 5th day of August, 2010, upon consideration of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person is State Custody (Document No. 1, filed February 27, 2009); Petitioner's Motion to Proceed Nunc Pro Tunc (filed February 27, 2009);1 Petitioner's Memorandum of Law In Support of His Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Document No. 6, filed June 4, 2009); Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Document No. 12, filed July 28, 2009); and Petitioner's Response and Reply Brief (Document No. 15, filed September 14, 2009), and after review of the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge David R. Strawbridge dated January 29, 2010 (Document No. 19), Petitioner's Objections to Magistrate's Report and Recommendation (Document No. 26, filed March 19, 2010), and the record in this case, for the reasons set forth in the Memorandum dated August 5, 2010, IT IS ORDERED as follows: 1. The Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge David R.

A copy of petitioner's Motion to Proceed Nunc Pro Tunc shall be docketed by the Deputy Clerk.

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Strawbridge dated January 29, 2010, is APPROVED and ADOPTED, as follows: a. Those parts of the Report and Recommendation of United States

Magistrate Judge David R. Strawbridge dated January 29, 2010, relating to Claims One through Five of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody are APPROVED AND ADOPTED; Claims One through Five are DISMISSED AND DENIED; and, b. That part of the Report and Recommendation dated January 29, 2010,

relating to Claim Six, as supplemented in the attached Memorandum, is APPROVED AND ADOPTED; Claim Six is DISMISSED. 2. Petitioner's Objections to the Report and Recommendation of United States

Magistrate David R. Strawbridge dated January 29, 2010, relating to Claims One through Six of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody are OVERRULED. 3. 4. Petitioner's Motion to Proceed Nunc Pro Tunc is DENIED. A certificate of appealability will not issue for the grounds on which the Court

denies relief because reasonable jurists would not debate this Court's procedural rulings and because petitioner has not made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right as required under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). See Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). BY THE COURT:

/s/ Hon. Jan E. DuBois JAN E. DUBOIS, J.

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