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U.S. v. GOSS, CR 06-020-GF-SEH (2014)

Court: District Court, D. Montana Number: infdco20140812b88 Visitors: 2
Filed: Aug. 11, 2014
Latest Update: Aug. 11, 2014
Summary: ORDER DISMISSING MOTION AND DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SAM E. HADDON, District Judge. On August 7,2014, Defendant/Movant Leslie Dean GOBS, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, moved under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6) to set aside the order of July 28, 2008, denying his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence under 28 U.S.C. 2255 and denying a certificate of appealability. Order (Doc. 133). The Court of Appeals has since twice denied a certificate of appealability. Order at I,
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ORDER DISMISSING MOTION AND DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

SAM E. HADDON, District Judge.

On August 7,2014, Defendant/Movant Leslie Dean GOBS, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, moved under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6) to set aside the order of July 28, 2008, denying his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and denying a certificate of appealability. Order (Doc. 133). The Court of Appeals has since twice denied a certificate of appealability. Order at I, United States v. Goss, No. 08-35868 (9th Cir. Dec. 7, 2009) (Doc. 157); Order at 1, United States v. Goss, No. 08-35839 (9th Cir. June 1, 2010) (Doc. 158).1

Goss advances two new claims for relief: that he is actually innocent, and that counsel was ineffective because he failed to produce to Goss the evidence of his actual innocence until after trial had concluded. See Rule 60 Mot. (Doc. 160) at 1,2. Although Goss invokes Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6), the motion is plainly a second motion for relief against the criminal judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 530-31 (2005); 28 U.S.C. §§ 2255(h), 2244(b). Absent the Court of Appeals' authorization to proceed with a second motion under § 2255, which he has not obtained, this Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the new claims. Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147, 149 (2007) (per curiam).

A certificate of appealability is not warranted. There is no doubt about either the nature of the new claims or this Court's lack of jurisdiction to hear them. Gonzalez v. Thaler, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 641, 648 (2012) (quoting Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473,484 (2000)). Moreover, the evidence Goss adduces to support his claim of "actual innocence" was given to him on or about May 10, 2006, well over a year before he filed his first § 2255 motion. See Letter from Counsel at 1 (Doc. 160-1 at 2). It is not newly discovered. Nor does it come anywhere close to proving by a preponderance of the evidence that no reasonable juror would have found Goss guilty. Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995).

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows:

1. Goss's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6) (Doc. 160) is RECHARACTERIZED as a second motion under 28 U.S.c. § 2255 motion and DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction.

2. A certificate of appealability is DENIED. The Clerk of Court shall immediately process the appeal if goss files a Notice of Appeal.

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1. It appears the appellate court did not realize it had opened two appeals.
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