FIORENTINO v. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCI HOUTZDALE
FIORENTINO v. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCI HOUTZDALE
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
ANDRE EMMITT FIORENTINO, : Petitioner, : : v. : CIVIL ACTION NO. 22-CV-3501 : SUPERINTENDENT OF SCI : HOUTZDALE, et al., : Respondents. :
ORDER AND NOW this 28th day of February, 2024, upon careful and independent consideration of Petitioner Andre Emmitt Fiorentino’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. No. 2), the Response by the District Attorney of Chester County (Doc. No. 10), and the Report and Recommendation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lloret, to which no objections were filed, it is ORDERED that: 1. The Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lloret [Doc. 14] is APPROVED and ADOPTED; 2. Mr. Fiorentino’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is DISMISSED with prejudice. by separate Judgment, filed contemporaneously with this Order. See Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58(a); Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United States District Courts, Rule 12; 3. No certificate of appealability shall issue under
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) because “the applicant has [not] made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right[,]” under
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2), since he has not demonstrated that “reasonable jurists” would find my “assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong.” Slack v. McDaniel,
529 U.S. 473, 484(2000); see United States v. Cepero,
224 F.3d 256, 262–63 (3d Cir. 2000), abrogated on other grounds by Gonzalez v. Thaler,
565 U.S. 134(2012); and 4. The Clerk of Court shall mark this file CLOSED. BY THE COURT:
/s/ Jeffrey L. Schmehl JEFFREY L. SCHMEHL, J.
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