THOMAS B. McCOUN, III, Magistrate Judge.
This cause is before the Court on an
Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 govern the determination of applications to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal. See Ex parte Chayoon, 2007 WL 1099088, No. 6:06-cv-1812-Orl-19JGG (M.D. Fla. Apr. 10, 2007). Rule 24(a) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure provides in part:
Fed. R. App. P. 24(a). Similarly, § 1915 provides, in pertinent part:
28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1), (3). Thus, two requirements must be satisfied for a party to prosecute an appeal in forma pauperis: (1) the party must show an inability to pay (or it was determined previously that the party was financially unable to obtain an adequate defense in a criminal case), and (2) the appeal must be brought in good faith.
A brief review of the pertinent procedural history is useful. Defendant was indicted on a single count for distribution of heroin resulting in the death of two individuals. (Doc. 10). In October 1997, he pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement calling for a mandatory minimum twenty years' incarceration. (Docs. 19, 21). Thereafter, Defendant failed to appear for sentencing. On November 13, 1998, after he was rearrested, Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On December 7, 2000, Defendant filed another Section 2255 motion and memorandum. (Docs. 78, 84). Therein, Defendant did not revisit the claim that his PSR contained factual inaccuracies concerning prior convictions. The motion was denied on August 22, 2001. (Doc. 97). Defendant appealed. (Doc. 100). Both this Court and the Eleventh Circuit denied Defendant's application for a certificate of appealability. (Doc. 106, 109).
On April 4, 2003, the Eleventh Circuit granted Defendant permission to file a successive Section 2255 motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence. (Doc. 112). The successor motion was filed on July 9, 2003. (Doc. 114). Among the issues raised, Defendant urged that the PSR contained two false and erroneous felony convictions that did not exist and three other charges in the PSR were altered. See id. On December 22, 2004, the Court denied the motion. (Doc. 118).
On August 21, 2007, Defendant filed a Motion to Compel the United States Probation Office to respond to a memorandum sent to it by the Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") regarding Defendant's claim that information contained in his PSR was inaccurate. (Doc. 123). The Court denied the motion. (Doc. 124). Defendant filed a Notice of Appeal (Doc. 125) and a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (Doc. 126). The Court denied the IFP motion, finding that the appeal was "frivolous." (Doc. 128). The Eleventh Circuit also denied the motion to proceed in forma pauperis because the appeal was frivolous and Defendant's appeal was dismissed. (Docs. 136,138).
In October 2008, Defendant motioned the Court to amend his PSR and reduce his sentence. (Doc. 139). He also moved for an Order directing the United States Probation Office to correct errors in his PSR. (Doc. 140). By Order of January 21, 2009, the Court denied both motions, noting that "Terry attempts by repeated but unsuccessful filings to circumvent the prohibition against successive Section 2255 motions by arguing for grouping of offenses and elimination of points attributable to correctly listed prior offenses, the time for which argument is long past." (Doc. 148 at 4). Defendant appealed the denial of the motion to correct his erroneous PSR. (Doc. 150). Both this Court and the Eleventh Circuit denied Defendant's motions to appeal in forma pauperis, concluding that the appeal was "frivolous." (Docs. 153, 167). The appeal was dismissed in June 2009. (Doc. 178).
Among many other efforts seeking relief, Defendant filed a motion under Rule 32(i)(3)(C), again seeking to correct errors in his PSR and complaining of the Court's ruling on his successive Section 2255 motion. (Doc. 210). In denying the motion, the Court again noted that Defendant had previously alleged inaccuracies in his PSR in his second motion to vacate sentence (Doc. 114) and in motions to amend his PSR (Docs. 139, 140), and that each motion had been denied by the Court. (Doc. 213). Defendant filed a Notice of Appeal. (Doc. 218). The appeal was dismissed for want of prosecution. (Doc. 224). Thereafter, in May 2012, the Eleventh Circuit declined to reinstate the appeal because the appeal was facially frivolous. (Doc. 233).
Defendant next filed a motion amending his Rule 60(b) motion to reopen his initial Section 2255 motion (Doc. 63), which first raised issues concerning the inaccuracy of his PSR. (Doc. 245). The motion was denied, as was a certificate of appealability and leave to appeal in forma pauperis.
On January 9, 2015, Defendant filed another motion to correct mistakes and clerical errors in his PSR, this time citing Rule 36. (Doc. 261). Citing its prior orders, the Court denied the motion. (Doc. 263). The Defendant filed a Notice of Appeal (Doc. 264), and by the instant Motion, seeks to proceed in forma pauperis.
While the Defendant demonstrates that he is without adequate funds to pay the costs of an appeal, his construed motion to appeal in forma pauperis should be denied. When read in the light of this procedural history, the instant Motion is simply another untimely and inappropriate attempt by Defendant to attack his sentence. As the Court has demonstrated through multiple prior orders, the errors which Defendant continuously revisits in this Court have been addressed substantively and found inconsequential to his sentence of life imprisonment. Multiple attempts to appeal the rulings have been found frivolous. In this latest attack, neither Fed. R. Crim. P. 36 permitting the correction of clerical errors in a judgment, nor Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(3)(C), are apposite to his proceedings or offer Defendant a timely and plausible avenue of relief. In sum, Defendant is unable to demonstrate a nonfrivolous issue for appeal with respect to the Order denying his Rule 36 motion to correct errors in his PSR.
Accordingly, it is