Filed: Aug. 26, 2014
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Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION ROBERT E. PAYNE, Senior District Judge. By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered on May 30, 2008, the Court denied Dujuan Farrow's motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255 (" 2255 Motion"). (ECF Nos. 137-38.) On April 4, 2014, the Court received another 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion filed by Farrow. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 restricted the jurisdiction of the district courts to hear second or successive appl
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION ROBERT E. PAYNE, Senior District Judge. By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered on May 30, 2008, the Court denied Dujuan Farrow's motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255 (" 2255 Motion"). (ECF Nos. 137-38.) On April 4, 2014, the Court received another 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion filed by Farrow. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 restricted the jurisdiction of the district courts to hear second or successive appli..
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROBERT E. PAYNE, Senior District Judge.
By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered on May 30, 2008, the Court denied Dujuan Farrow's motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ("§ 2255 Motion"). (ECF Nos. 137-38.) On April 4, 2014, the Court received another 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed by Farrow.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 restricted the jurisdiction of the district courts to hear second or successive applications for federal habeas corpus relief by prisoners attacking the validity of their convictions and sentences by establishing a "`gatekeeping' mechanism." Felker v. Turpin, 518 U.S. 651, 657 (1996). Specifically, "[b]efore 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 foran order authorizing the district court to consider the application." 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). The Court has not received authorization from the United States Court of Appeals to hear Farrow's successive § 2255 Motion. Accordingly, the § 2255 Motion (ECF No. 192) will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Farrow's Motion to Proceed Without the Prepayment of Fees (ECF No. 191) will be denied as moot.
An appeal may not be taken from the final order in a § 2255 proceeding unless a judge issues a certificate of appealability ("COA"). 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B). A COA will not issue unles a prisoner makes "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). This requirement is satisfied only when "reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petiton should have been resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were `adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'" Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, 893 & n.4 (1983)). Farrow fails to satisfy this standard. Accordingly, a certificate of appealability will be denied.
The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Memorandum Opinion to Farrow and counsel of record.
