Michael Donell Moore v. Michael Underwood, Warden, F.C.I. Loretto, et al.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MICHAEL DONELL MOORE, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 3:25-249 ) Judge Nora Barry Fischer MICHAEL UNDERWOOD, WARDEN, ) Magistrate Judge Keith Pesto F.C.I. LORETTO, et al. ) ) Respondents. )

MEMORANDUM ORDER AND NOW, this 27th day of January, 2026, upon consideration of the Report and Recommendation filed by United States Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto on October 27, 2025, (Docket No. 14), recommending that the § 2241 habeas petition filed by Petitioner Michael Donell Moore against Warden Michael Underwood of FCI Loretto be denied as the Petitioner is statutorily barred from earned time credits due to his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and directing that any objections were due within 14 days such that objections from non-ECF users were due by November 13, 2025, no objections having been filed as of the date of this Order, and this matter having been recently reassigned to the undersigned for prompt disposition, and upon independent review of the record and de novo consideration of the Magistrate Judge’s October 27, 2025 Report and Recommendation, (Docket No. 14), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the October 27, 2025 Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED as the opinion of this Court; IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Petition [1] is DENIED, as Petitioner is statutorily barred from earned time credits due to his conviction under § 924(c), see e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(D)(xxii); Colotti v. Peters, No. 25-1191, 2025 WL 1321386, at *2 (3d Cir. May 7, 2025) (“under the plain text of the Act, Colotti is ineligible to earn good time credits [ given his 924(c) conviction]. Further, as the District Court concluded, the BOP properly aggregated Colotti's convictions as a single sentence for purposes of FSA time credits”); Pacheco Mejia v. Warden Loretto FCI, No. 25-2205, 2025 WL 3124474, at *1 (3d Cir. Nov. 7, 2025) (“Congress explicitly identified Section 924(c) offenders like Pacheco Mejia as ineligible for First Step Act time-credit purposes.”); and, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that an appropriate Judgment follows. s/Nora Barry Fischer Nora Barry Fischer Senior U.S. District Judge cc/ecf: Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto cc: Michael Donell Moore 12393-509 FCI - LORETTO P.O. BOX 1000 CRESSON, PA 16630 (via first class mail)