Opinion
Civil Action No. 08-1018.
December 1, 2009
ORDER
AND NOW, this 1st day of December, 2009, after the Petitioner, K. Kabasha Griffin-El, also known as Keith Fedele Griffin, filed an action in the above-captioned case, and after a Report and Recommendation was filed by the United States Magistrate Judge granting the parties until November 30, 2009, to file written objections thereto, and no objections having been filed, and upon independent review of the record, and upon consideration of the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, which is adopted as the opinion of this Court,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the habeas petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is dismissed as time barred or, in the alternative, as being meritless.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a certificate of appealability is denied.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, if the parties desire to appeal from this Order they must do so within thirty (30) days by filing a notice of appeal as provided in Rule 3, Fed.R.App.P.