Wedington v. United States of America

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Calvin Wedington, )
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Petiti°“°" ) case- 1~16-¢\/-01014
) Assigned To : Unassigned
V~ ) Assign_ oare : 5/31:2016
§ Description: Habeas Corpus/2255 (G Dec|<)
USA et al ., )
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Respondents. )
MEMORANDUM 0PINION
Petitioner, proceeding pro .s'e, is incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester,
Minnesota. He has submitted a Petition~ fo.i'ia of ]Eiabeas Corpus Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241and an application to proceed in forma pauperz``s. A district court lacking jurisdiction over a
habeas petitioner’s immediate custodian lacks jurisdiction over the petition. Stokes v. U.S.
Parole Comm ’n, 374 F.3d 1235, 1239 (D.C. Cir. 2004). See Rooney v. Sec’y ofArmy, 405 F.3d
' 1029, 1032 (D.C. Cir. 2005) (habeas "jurisdiction is proper only in the district in which the
immediate . . . custodian is located") (internal citations and quotation marks omitted).
Tllis Court cannot exercise jurisdiction o\'/er petitioner’s warden in Minnesota, but the
interest of justice would not be served by transferring the case because petitioner has stated no
cogent grounds for relief See Mayle v. Felix, 545 U.S. 644, 649 (2005) (“Rule 2(0) of the Rules
Governing Habeas Corpus Cases requires a more detailed statement [than Rule 8(a) of the
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]. The habeas instructs the petitioner to ‘Specify all the
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grounds for relief available to [him]’ and to ‘state the facts supporting each ground. ). Hence,
this case will be dismissed without prejudice. A separate ()rder accompanies this Memorandum
Opini0n.
Date: May_ZL, 2016