Theodore Young, Sr. v.

639 F. App'x 72

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Decided: May 5, 2016
• Docket: 16-1606
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

OPINION *

PER CURIAM.

Theodore Young, Sr., is a federal prisoner currently incarcerated at FCI-Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania. In 2007, a jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found Young guilty of conspiracy to distribute heroin and related crimes. The District Court sentenced him to 144 months in prison. Young was unsuccessful on direct appeal and in an initial motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

In March 2014, Young filed another motion under § 2255. The District Court dismissed the motion as an unauthorized “second or successive” motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h), and we denied Young’s request for a certificate of appealability as well as his subsequent request for reconsideration. United States v. Young, C.A. No. 14-1910 (orders entered Aug. 4, 2014, and Mar. 24, 2015). Still proceeding in this Court, Young then filed a purported motion to reopen pursuant to Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. By order entered July 21, 2015, the Clerk informed Young that no action would be taken on the motion, which was explicitly addressed to this Court, because the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not apply to appellate proceedings here.

Young now asks us to issue a writ of mandamus compelling the District Court to rule on the Rule 60 motion — evidently because he believes that he filed it in that court. 1 Because there is no such motion pending in the District Court, and because the Clerk of this Court already declined to take action on the motion filed here, we will deny the petition for writ of mandamus.

* This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent.

1 . We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651.