(PS) McCullough v. Levi ( 2021 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 PERRY ADRON MCCULLOUGH, Case No. 2:21-cv-00127-TLN-JDP (PS) 12 Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO 13 v. DISMISS BE GRANTED 14 DAVID F. LEVI, et al., ECF No. 6 15 Defendants. OBJECTIONS DUE WITHIN 14 DAYS 16 17 Plaintiff, Perry Adron McCullough, proceeding without counsel, seeks to challenge his 18 criminal conviction under the theory that the law does not apply to him. ECF No. 1. Defendants 19 move to dismiss, ECF No. 6, and plaintiff opposes that motion, ECF No. 8. I recommend that 20 defendants’ motion to dismiss, ECF No. 6, be granted because plaintiff’s complaint is frivolous. 21 Plaintiff claims to be a sovereign non-citizen. ECF No. 1 at 7. He challenges his criminal 22 conviction in United States v. McCullough, Case No. 2:89-cr-00251-WBS-1, under the theory 23 that the court lacked jurisdiction over him. Id. at 8. He argues that he was not charged with a 24 crime; instead, the government charged “PERRY ADRON MCCULLOUGH©, a DEBTOR and 25 governmentally created Fiction existing for Commercial purposes only.” Id. at 14. Plaintiff also 26 claims that he never consented to the jurisdiction of the United States. Id. at 16. He alleges that 27 courts “have no jurisdiction over a living man or woman” because they are sovereign. Id. at 27. 28 He asserts that he “is a natural born, free, Living, breathing, flesh and blood human with sentient 1 and moral existence, a real man upon the soil, a juris et de jure, also knows as a Secured Party 2 and an inhabitant, not a United States Citizen.” Id. at 11. And plaintiff claims that he is not 3 subject to the law because he is a man. See, e.g., id. at 11, 27. For these reasons, plaintiff argues 4 that the criminal judgment against him entered on November 5, 1990 is void.1 Id. at 22. He seeks 5 nearly eighteen billion dollars and reversal of his criminal conviction. Id. at 62-63. 6 “Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is proper when the complaint . . . lacks a cognizable legal 7 theory . . . .” Somers v. Apple, Inc., 729 F.3d 953, 959 (9th Cir. 2013). Further, a complaint is 8 frivolous when it is “based on an indisputably meritless legal theory.” Neitzke v. Williams, 490 9 U.S. 319, 327 (1989). Claims that a person is sovereign and does not have to follow the law are 10 frivolous. See, e.g., United States v. Lorenzo, 995 F.2d 1448, 1456 (9th Cir. 1993) (district court 11 has criminal jurisdiction over Hawaiian residents who claim that they are citizens of the 12 Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii and not of the United States); Robinson v. United States, 224 F. 13 App’x 700, 701 (9th Cir. 2007) (same). Plaintiff cannot proceed on his theory that the district 14 court lacked jurisdiction to charge him with a crime. Leave to amend would be futile because the 15 complaint is frivolous. 16 Accordingly, I recommend that: 17 1. Defendants’ motion to dismiss, ECF No. 6, be granted. 18 2. This case be dismissed with prejudice. 19 3. The Clerk be directed to close this case. 20 I submit the findings and recommendations to the district judge under 28 U.S.C. 21 § 636(b)(1)(B) and Rule 304 of the Local Rules of Practice for the United States District Court, 22 Eastern District of California. Within 14 days of the service of the findings and 23 recommendations, the parties may file written objections to the findings and recommendations 24 with the court and serve a copy on all parties. That document should be captioned “Objections to 25 Magistrate Judge’s Findings and Recommendations.” The district judge will review the findings 26 and recommendations under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). 27 28 1 Plaintiff does not seek habeas relief. See ECF No. 1 at 23. 1 > IT IS SO ORDERED. 3 ( | { Wine Dated: _ November 10, 2021 Q_—_—. 4 JEREMY D. PETERSON 5 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28