Filed: Jul. 29, 2016
Latest Update: Jul. 29, 2016
Summary: ORDER JAMES S. MOODY, Jr. , District Judge . THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon Petitioner Morris Vernell Hires, Jr.'s Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255 (CV Doc. 1). By his motion, Hires asserts that he is entitled to relief pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), declared retroactive by Welch v. United States, No. 15-6418, 2016 WL 1551144 (Apr. 18, 2016). Because the Eleventh Circuit denied Hires' motion for leave
Summary: ORDER JAMES S. MOODY, Jr. , District Judge . THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon Petitioner Morris Vernell Hires, Jr.'s Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255 (CV Doc. 1). By his motion, Hires asserts that he is entitled to relief pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), declared retroactive by Welch v. United States, No. 15-6418, 2016 WL 1551144 (Apr. 18, 2016). Because the Eleventh Circuit denied Hires' motion for leave ..
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ORDER
JAMES S. MOODY, Jr., District Judge.
THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon Petitioner Morris Vernell Hires, Jr.'s Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (CV Doc.
1). By his motion, Hires asserts that he is entitled to relief pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), declared retroactive by Welch v. United States, No. 15-6418, 2016 WL 1551144 (Apr. 18, 2016). Because the Eleventh Circuit denied Hires' motion for leave to file a successive § 2255, his motion should be dismissed.
Hires' present § 2255 motion is a second or successive motion. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2255(h) and 2244(b)(3)(A), as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, federal prisoners who want to file a second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a sentence must move in the appropriate court of appeals for an order authorizing the district court to consider the second or successive motion. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). A three-judge panel of the court of appeals may authorize the filing of a second or successive motion only if it determines that the motion contains claims which rely on either:
(1) newly discovered evidence that, if proven and viewed in the light of the evidence as a whole, would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable factfinder would have found the movant guilty of the offense; or
(2) a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable.
28 U.S.C. § 2255(h).
On July 20, 2016, the Eleventh Circuit denied Hires' request to file a successive motion under § 2255 based on Johnson. (CV Doc. 5). Because Hires has not received authorization to file a second or successive habeas petition from the Eleventh Circuit, this Court lacks jurisdiction to consider his motion and it should be dismissed. See United States v. Holt, 417 F.3d 1172, 1175 (11th Cir. 2005) ("Without authorization [from the appropriate court of appeals, a] district court lacks jurisdiction to consider a second or successive petition.").
Accordingly, it is therefore ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that:
1. Petitioner Morris Vernell Hires, Jr.'s Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (CV Doc. 1) is DISMISSED.
2. The Clerk is directed to terminate from pending status the motion to vacate found at Doc. 122 in the underlying criminal case, case number 8:07-cr-120-T-30TGW.
3. The Clerk is directed to terminate any pending motions and close this case.
DONE and ORDERED.
