JACKSON v. ROZUM et al
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MEMORANDUM AND OPINION re 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by HUBERT JACKSON be transferred to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as a successive petition. Signed by Magistrate Judge Robert C. Mitchell on 07/12/2012. (Mitchell, Robert)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNYSLVANIA
HUBERT JACKSON, AJ-2373,
Petitioner,
v.
SUPERINTENDENT ROZUM., et al.,
Respondents.
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2:12-cv-948
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
Hubert Jackson has presented another in a series of habeas corpus petitions. For the
reasons set forth below, the petitioner will be transferred to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit for consideration as a successive petition.
Hubert Jackson, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Somerset has presented
a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition, Jackson seeks to challenge his twenty to
forty year sentence imposed following his conviction of rape, burglary, aggravated assault and
terroristic threats at No. CC 1988010278 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania.
The instant petition was executed on July 3, 2012. However, this is not the first federal
challenge which Jackson has addressed to the above sentence. In Civil Action 2:09-cv-87, the
petitioner also sought to challenge that conviction. The latter petition was dismissed on February
19, 2009 and judgment was entered against the petitioner on March 9, 2009. An appeal was
taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and docketed at No. 09-1926
and again at docket No. 10-1937 and the appeal was terminated on August 05, 2010 by the denial
of a certificate of appealability. Jackson then filed another petition challenging this conviction at
2:10-cv-1359. The latter petition was transferred to the Court of Appeals as a successive petition.
On December 16, 2011, Jackson filed another habeas petition challenging that conviction. The
latter was transferred to the Court of Appeals as a successive petition and on March 27, 2012
dismissed for failure to prosecute.
Jackson now returns to this Court with a successive petition.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, signed into law on April 24, 1996,
included several major reforms to the federal habeas corpus laws. As part of this habeas corpus
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reform, Congress amended 28 U.S.C. § 2244 to prohibit district courts from entertaining claims
presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application unless the appropriate federal
court of appeals authorizes such filing. The relevant amended language provides as follows:
(A) Before a second or successive application permitted by this section is filed in
the district court, the applicant shall move in the appropriate court of appeals for
an order authorizing the district court to consider the application.
(B) A motion in the court of appeals for an order authorizing the district court to
consider a second or successive application shall be determined by a three-judge
panel of the court of appeals.
(C) The court of appeals may authorize the filing of a second or successive
application only if it determines that the application makes a prima facie showing
that the application satisfies the requirements of this subsection.
(D) The court of appeals shall grant or deny the authorization to file a second or
successive application not later than 30 days after the filing of the motion.
(E) The grant or denial of an authorization by a court of appeals to file a second or
successive application shall not be appealable and shall not be the subject of a
petition for rehearing or for a writ of certiorari.
28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3).
Because it would appear that this Court cannot consider the instant petition without leave
of the Court of Appeals, it will be transferred to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1631 for a determination of whether or not Jackson can proceed
here.
An appropriate Order will be entered.
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ORDER
AND NOW, this 12th day of July, 2012, for the reason in the foregoing Memorandum, the
petition of Hubert Jackson is transferred forthwith to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit for consideration as a successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2244.
s/ Robert C. Mitchell
United States Magistrate Judge
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