Adams v. Shannon

Full title: GEOFFREY ADAMS, Petitioner, v. ROBERT SHANNON, SUPERINTENDENT, S.C.I…

Court: United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania

Date published: May 29, 2007

Case No. 2:06-556-NBF-KAP (W.D. Pa. May. 29, 2007)

Opinion

Case No. 2:06-556-NBF-KAP.

May 29, 2007

MEMORANDUM ORDER

NORA FISCHER, District Judge

This matter was referred to Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto for proceedings in accordance with the Magistrates Act, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), and subsections 3 and 4 of Local Rule 72.1 for Magistrate Judges.

The Magistrate Judge filed a Report and Recommendation on April 23, 2007, docket no. 19, recommending that the petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus be denied, and that a certificate of appealability be denied.

The parties were notified that pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), they had ten days to serve and file written objections to the Report and Recommendation. Petitioner filed timely objections, docket no. 20, which I have reviewed but reject.

After de novo review of the record of this matter, together with the Report and Recommendation and the petitioner's timely objections, the following order is entered:

AND NOW, this 28^th day of May, 2007, it is

ORDERED that the petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is denied. A certificate of appealability is denied. The Report and Recommendation is adopted as the opinion of the Court. The Clerk shall mark this matter closed.