PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND RECOMMENDATION

ROBERT H. WALKER, Magistrate Judge.

On December 16, 2014, Cedric Hoskins, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus. Doc. [1]. Hoskins pleaded guilty to statutory rape in the Circuit Court of Rankin County. On July 15, 2009, the court filed the judgment of conviction and sentence. Doc. [13-1]. In his petition, Hoskins contends that he was forced into a guilty plea by illegal torture tactics. Doc. [1] at 2, 7. Respondents filed a motion to dismiss in which they argue that Hoskins' § 2254 petition is untimely pursuant to the AEDPA's one-year limitation period. Doc. [13]. Hoskins did not file a response in opposition to the motion; however, he previously filed a motion requesting that his probation be transferred to another state's jurisdiction. Doc. [10].

LAW AND ANALYSIS

28 U.S.C. § 2244 provides, in relevant part, that:

On July 15, 2009, the state circuit court entered a judgment of conviction and sentence following Hoskins' guilty plea. Doc. [13-1]. By statute there is no direct appeal from a guilty plea. See Miss. Code Ann. § 99-35-101. Accordingly, the conviction and sentence became final on the date he was sentenced. See Roberts v. Cockrell, 319 F.3d 690, 693-94 (5th Cir. 2003). Unless the petition is subject to statutory or equitable tolling, Hoskins needed to file his § 2254 petition on or before July 15, 2010, in order to be timely under the AEDPA's one-year limitation period. Hoskins signed the petition on December 10, 2014. It was filed in the clerk's office on December 16, 2014. The undersigned concludes that Hoskins did not file his petition within one year after his conviction and sentence became final. In fact Hoskins did not file the instant § 2254 petition until more than five years after the conviction and sentence became final.

Hoskins is not entitled to statutory tolling of the limitations period. A properly filed application for post-conviction relief in state court will toll the one-year limitations period. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2). Hoskins filed a motion for post-conviction relief in Rankin County Circuit Court on September 19, 2011. Doc. [13-3]. He filed a second motion on September 9, 2013. Doc. [13-6]. Both of these motions were denied by the trial court. Doc. [13-4] & [13-7]. The undersigned finds that these post-conviction motions do not toll the AEDPA's one-year limitation period because they were filed after the one-year limitation period already had expired. Accordingly, Hoskins is not entitled to any statutory tolling.

Nor is Hoskins entitled to equitable tolling. The Supreme Court has recognized that, in appropriate cases, the limitations period may be equitably tolled. Holland v. Florida, 130 S.Ct. 2549, 2560-62 (2010). A petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling only if he shows (1) that he has been pursuing his rights diligently, and (2) that some extraordinary circumstance stood in his way and prevented timely filing. Id. at 2562. Equitable tolling is available only in "rare and exceptional circumstances". See Felder v. Johnson, 204 F.3d 168, 171 (5th Cir. 2000). Hoskins does not identify any extraordinary or rare and exceptional circumstances that would entitle him to equitable tolling. He alleges at several points in his petition that his case was dismissed by the United States District Court because he could not pay the court costs. Doc. [1] at 2, 6, 9, 13, 14. Hoskins cites to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights case that he filed. Id. at 12 (citing 3:12CV106-TSL-MTP). In that lawsuit, he also alleged that he was forced into a guilty plea and argued that his constitutional rights were violated. See Hoskins v. Emfinger, 3:12cv106 (Doc. [1]). As relief he sought to have his conviction overturned. Id. District Judge Tom S. Lee dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim. The undersigned notes that Hoskins also filed an earlier § 2254 petition on February 15, 2012, that District Judge Henry T. Wingate dismissed without prejudice for failure to exhaust state remedies. See Hoskins v. Epps, 3:12cv105.

In the instant petition Hoskins alleges that his criminal defense attorney "sabotage my paper work and refused to send my filed." Doc. [1] at 14. Hoskins does not provide any specific allegations as to how his attorney sabotaged his paper work. Assuming arguendo that Hoskins' attorney did not provide him a copy of the attorney's work file, Hoskins nevertheless was in possession of the alleged facts that formed the basis of his petition from the very beginning, i.e. that he was forced into a guilty plea by torture tactics. The undersigned concludes that Hoskins has failed to demonstrate that he diligently pursued his rights or that some extraordinary or rare and exceptional circumstance prevented a timely filing of his petition.

On February 3, 2015, Hoskins filed a "Motion for a Contingent Interstate Probation Transfer." Doc. [10]. It appears that Hoskins seeks to have his probation served in some state other than Mississippi. The undersigned finds that Hoskins request relates merely to the location where he would serve out his probation and does not implicate the fact or duration of his confinement; therefore, it is not the proper subject of a § 2254 petition. See Carson v. Johnson, 112 F.3d 818, 820-21 (5th Cir. 1997); Bunn v. Conley, 309 F.3d 1002, 1007-08 (7th Cir. 2009). The undersigned recommends that this motion be denied.

RECOMMENDATION

The undersigned recommends that Respondents' [13] Motion to Dismiss be GRANTED and that Cedric Hoskins' 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus be denied as timebarred by the AEDPA's one-year limitations period. The undersigned further recommends that Hoskins' [10] Motion for a Contingent Interstate Probation Transfer be DENIED.

NOTICE OF RIGHT TO APPEAL/OBJECT

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), any party who desires to object to this report must serve and file written objections within fourteen (14) days after being served with a copy unless the time period is modified by the District Court. A party filing objections must specifically identify those findings, conclusions and recommendations to which objections are being made; the District Court need not consider frivolous, conclusive or general objections. Such party shall file the objections with the Clerk of the Court and serve the objections on the District Judge and on all other parties. A party's failure to file such objections to the proposed findings, conclusions and recommendation contained in this report shall bar that party from a de novo determination by the District Court. Additionally, a party's failure to file written objections to the proposed findings, conclusions, and recommendation contained in this report within fourteen (14) days after being served with a copy shall bar that party, except upon grounds of plain error, from attacking on appeal the proposed factual findings and legal conclusions that have been accepted by the district court and for which there is no written objection. Douglass v. United Services Automobile Association, 79 F.3d 1415, 1428-29 (5th Cir. 1996).

SO ORDERED.