Steve Jenkins v. M.V. Joseph, Warden

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina adopts a Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation and grants the Respondent’s motion for summary judgment. The court denies Steve Jenkins’s habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, which sought restoration of good-time credit revoked following a prison disciplinary proceeding. The court also denies a certificate of appealability.

Holdings

1. A district court must conduct de novo review of the specific portions of a magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation to which a specific written objection is made, while unobjected-to portions and portions subject only to general or conclusory objections are reviewed for clear error.
2. Jenkins was not entitled to habeas relief because undisputed evidence showed that his good-time credit was revoked after a fair adjudication of his disciplinary action.
3. A certificate of appealability was denied because Jenkins failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the district court properly reviewed and adopted the magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation in light of Jenkins's objections.
2. Whether Jenkins was entitled to habeas relief restoring good-time credit revoked after a prison disciplinary proceeding.
3. Whether Jenkins's assertion that prison staff failed to comply with a daily-mail-collection requirement justified or excused his disciplinary infraction.
4. Whether Jenkins was entitled to a certificate of appealability.

Disposition

other