Opinion
CIVIL 1:23cv154-HSO-BWR
01-26-2024
ERIC JASON FIORENTINO, JR. PETITIONER v. TYRONE NELSON RESPONDENT
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL
HALIL SULEYMAN OZERDEN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
This matter is before the Court sua sponte. Pro se Petitioner Eric Jason Fiorentino, Jr., filed this Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus [8] under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. He is a pretrial detainee at the Jackson County Detention Facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Court has considered and liberally construed the pleadings and finds that this case should be dismissed.
The Petition was originally filed in cause number 1:23cv126. Because it contained both 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and habeas claims, the habeas claims were severed and opened in this action on June 21, 2023. To the extent the Amended Petition still requests damages, those claims will be dismissed without prejudice.
Fiorentino filed the instant habeas action on May 22, 2023, challenging his pending charges from Kansas and Mississippi. Pet. [2] at 1, 3. He claims that he is being denied a speedy extradition and bond, and that the Mississippi charges constitute double jeopardy. Am. Pet. [8] at 6-7.
As he acknowledges in his Amended Petition, Fiorentino previously filed another habeas Petition in this Court, challenging the same charges. Id. at 2. The first case, styled Fiorentino v. Nelson, civil action number 1:23cv125, was filed May 19, 2023, and is still pending before the Court.
A civil action, including a habeas action, may be dismissed if it is duplicative of another action pending in the same court. Oliney v. Gardner, 771 F.2d 856, 859 (5th Cir. 1985); see also Norwood v. United States, 235 Fed.Appx. 231, 231 (5th Cir. July 24, 2007) (habeas) (citing Pittman v. Moore, 980 F.2d 994, 994-95 (5th Cir. 1993)); Williams v. Thaler, No. 3-12-cv-2667-M-BD, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135780 at *1-2 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 30, 2012) (habeas). Because the Amended Petition attacks the same criminal charges challenged in the prior pending case, this case will be dismissed without prejudice as duplicative.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that, this civil action should be and is hereby DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. A separate final judgment shall issue pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58.
SO ORDERED,.