Opio Moore v. Warden Streeval

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Opio Moore v. Warden Streeval

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 22-6865

OPIO DIARRA MOORE,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

WARDEN STREEVAL,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Roanoke. Michael F. Urbanski, Chief District Judge. (7:22-cv-00338-MFU-JCH)

Submitted: October 18, 2022 Decided: October 21, 2022

Before WYNN and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Opio Diarra Moore, Appellant Pro Se.

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PER CURIAM:

Opio Diarra Moore, a federal prisoner, appeals the district court’s order dismissing

for lack of jurisdiction his

28 U.S.C. § 2241

petition in which he sought to challenge his

conviction by way of the savings clause in

28 U.S.C. § 2255

. Pursuant to § 2255(e), a

prisoner may challenge his conviction in a traditional writ of habeas corpus pursuant to

§ 2241 if a § 2255 motion would be inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his

detention.

[Section] 2255 is inadequate and ineffective to test the legality of a conviction when: (1) at the time of conviction, settled law of this circuit or the Supreme Court established the legality of the conviction; (2) subsequent to the prisoner’s direct appeal and first § 2255 motion, the substantive law changed such that the conduct of which the prisoner was convicted is deemed not to be criminal; and (3) the prisoner cannot satisfy the gatekeeping provisions of § 2255 because the new rule is not one of constitutional law.

In re Jones,

226 F.3d 328

, 333-34 (4th Cir. 2000).

We have reviewed the record and, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in

Greer v. United States,

141 S. Ct. 2090

(2021), find no reversible error in the district

court’s determination that Moore failed to show that

28 U.S.C. § 2255

is an inadequate or

ineffective means of challenging his conviction. We thus affirm the dismissal order.

Moore v. Streeval, No. 7:22-cv-00338-MFU-JCH (W.D. Va. July 8, 2022). We dispense

with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the

materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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