IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN DIVISION No. 4:23-CV-51-BO-RN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ) Plaintiff, v. ORDER THOMAS EVERETT, JR., Defendant.

This cause comes before the Court on the memorandum and recommendation (M&R) of United States Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers, II. [DE 7]. In February 2018, the state of North Carolina charged Thomas Everette Jr. with three counts of Obtaining Property By False Pretense. [DE 1-1] Everette removed those cases to this federal Court and motioned to proceed in forma pauperis. [DE 1]. The M&R recommended this Court grant plaintiffs application to proceed in forma pauperis but remand the matter to the North Carolina Superior Court. [DE 7]. Everette filed a timely objection that can be quoted in full: “I Thomas Everette Jr. here by [sic] object to the recommendation and the memorandum by the United States Magistrate Judge.” [DE 8]. A district court must review de novo those portions of an M&R to which a party timely files specific objections or where there is plain error.

(b)(1); Thomas v. Arn,

(1985). But this Court need not conduct a de novo review for “general and conclusory objections that do not direct the court to a specific error in the magistrate’s proposed findings and recommendations.” Orpiano v. Johnson,

(4th Cir. 1982). Everette failed to make a specific objection to the M&R, so this Court “must only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record in order to accept the recommendation.”

Diamond v. Colonial Life & Acc. Ins. Co.,

(4th Cir. 2005) (internal quotation and citation omitted). The Court has reviewed M&R and finds no clear error. Accordingly, the Court ADOPTS the M&R in its entirety. For the foregoing reasons, the memorandum and recommendation [DE 7] is ADOPTED. Everette’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis [DE 3] is GRANTED, but the Clerk is DIRECTED to remand his state criminal cases back to North Carolina Superior Court. SO ORDERED, this □□ day of June, 2023

Sees UA Boy’ TERRENCE W. BOYLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE