Filed: Oct. 30, 2018
Latest Update: Oct. 30, 2018
Summary: ORDER SAM A. LINDSAY , District Judge . The case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge Ren e Harris Toliver, who entered the Findings, Conclusions and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge ("Report") on August 30, 2018, recommending that the court deny Petitioner's habeas petition in which four grounds for relief are raised based on sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The magistrate judg
Summary: ORDER SAM A. LINDSAY , District Judge . The case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge Ren e Harris Toliver, who entered the Findings, Conclusions and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge ("Report") on August 30, 2018, recommending that the court deny Petitioner's habeas petition in which four grounds for relief are raised based on sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The magistrate judge..
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ORDER
SAM A. LINDSAY, District Judge.
The case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver, who entered the Findings, Conclusions and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge ("Report") on August 30, 2018, recommending that the court deny Petitioner's habeas petition in which four grounds for relief are raised based on sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The magistrate judge further determined that Petitioner is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing. On September 25, 2018, Petitioner filed a Request to File Late Objections (Doc. 17), which includes Objections to the Report. The court grants the Request to File Late Objections (Doc. 17) and deems the objections filed timely.
After carefully reviewing the pleadings, file, record in this case, and Report, and conducting a de novo review of the portions of the Report to which objection was made, the court determines that the findings and conclusions of the magistrate judge are correct, accepts them as those of the court, overrules Petitioner's objections, and dismisses with prejudice this habeas action for the reasons set forth in the Report.
Considering the record in this case and pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 22(b), Rule 11(a) of the Rules Governing §§ 2254 and 2255 proceedings, and 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), the court denies a certificate of appealability.* The court determines that Petitioner has failed to show: (1) that reasonable jurists would find this court's "assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong;" or (2) that reasonable jurists would find "it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right" and "debatable whether [this court] was correct in its procedural ruling." Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). In support of this determination, the court accepts and incorporates by reference the magistrate judge's report filed in this case. In the event that Petitioner files a notice of appeal, he must pay the $505 appellate filing fee or submit a motion to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal.
It is so ordered.
