Sharpe v. United States ( 2015 )


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  • UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
    FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAR 1 6 2015
    Clerk, u.s. District 5. Bankruptcy
    Courts for the District of Columbia
    Jerry Wayne Sharpe, )
    )
    Petitioner,
    j Case: 1:15-cv-0038_3
    V ) Assigned To : Unassugned
    ) Assign. Date : 3/16/2015
    ) Description: Habeas Corpus/2255
    United States of America, )
    )
    Respondent. )
    MEMORANDUM OPINION
    Petitioner, proceeding pro se, has submitted an application for a writ of habeas corpus
    under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, along with an application to proceed in forma pauperis. The Court will
    grant the application to proceed in forma pauperis and will dismiss the case for lack of
    jurisdiction.
    Petitioner is a North Carolina state prisoner incarcerated at the Maury Correctional
    Institution in Maury, North Carolina. Petitioner purports to challenge a judgment of conviction
    entered by the “US. District Court” in Greensboro, North Carolina, and claims that he was
    sentenced in January 2015. Pet. 1H] 1, 2. Later in the application, however, petitioner indicates
    that he appealed a conviction to the state appellate courts in North Carolina. See 
    id. 1i 9.
    The
    confusion notwithstanding, this Court cannot exercise jurisdiction over the petition.
    Federal court review of state convictions is available under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 only after
    the exhaustion of available state remedies. See 28 U.S.C. §2254(b)(l). Thereafter, “an
    application for a writ of habeas corpus [ ] made by a person in custody under the judgment and
    sentence of a State court . . . may be filed in the district court for the district wherein such person
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    is in custody or in the district court for the district within which the State court was held which
    convicted and sentenced [petitioner] and each of such district courts shall have concurrent
    jurisdiction to entertain the application.” 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d).
    If petitioner is in fact challenging a federal conviction, he has filed the wrong action.
    Challenges to a federal conviction must proceed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the sentencing court,
    which the instant petition suggests is the United States District Court for the Middle District of
    North Carolina. A separate Order of dismissal accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.
    Date: March l2,2015
    

Document Info

Docket Number: Civil Action No. 2015-0383

Judges: Judge Randolph D. Moss

Filed Date: 3/16/2015

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 3/16/2015