Wise v. Fleming

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Wise v. Fleming, 89 F. App'x 877 (5th Cir. 2004)
Emilio, Garza, Higginbotham, Per Curiam, Prado

Wise v. Fleming

Opinion

PER CURIAM. *

Johnie Wise, federal inmate # 82281-079, appeals the district court’s dismissal *878 of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. A jury-convicted Wise of two counts of threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and aiding and abetting. United States v. Wise, 221 F.3d 140, 147 (5th Cir. 2000). The district court sentenced Wise to concurrent terms of 292 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release. Id.

Wise asserts that his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition satisfied the criteria necessary to proceed under the “savings clause” of 28 U.S.C. § 2255. He contends that his petition raised a novel issue concerning the Government’s alleged failure to establish commercial injury. Wise asserts that commercial injury is an essential element of the crime of conviction. He argues that novel claims can never be procedurally barred and that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective because it does not offer a remedy. He contends that the district court’s dismissal of his petition amounts to an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.

Wise has not met his burden of showing that the remedy provided under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention. Wesson v. U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont, TX, 305 F.3d 343, 347 (5th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1241, 123 S.Ct. 1374, 155 L.Ed.2d 212 (2003). He has not identified a retroactively applicable Supreme Court decision which establishes that he may have been imprisoned for conduct that was not prohibited by law. He has not shown that his claims were foreclosed by circuit law when the claims should have been raised, ie., at his trial, on appeal, or in an initial 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. Wesson, 305 F.3d at 347.

We have rejected previously Wise’s Suspension Clause argument. See id. at 346-47. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under *878 the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.

Reference

Full Case Name
Johnie WISE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. L.E. FLEMING, Warden, Federal Medical Center-Fort Worth, Respondent-Appellee
Status
Unpublished