SARAH S. VANCE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
ORDER AND REASONS
The Court has reviewed de novo the petition for habeas corpus, the record, the applicable law, the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, and the petitioner's objection to the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation. The Magistrate Judge's recommended ruling is correct and there is no merit to petitioner's objection. Accordingly, the Court adopts the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation as its opinion herein.
R. Doc. 1.
R. Doc. 8.
R. Doc. 9.
Petitioner's objection is untimely and contains allegations and details that were not raised before the Magistrate Judge when he made his Report and Recommendation. Facts and issues raised for the first time in a prisoner's objections to a Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation are not properly before the district court. Flores v. Scott, 58 F.3d 637, 1995 WL 371237, at *2 (5th Cir. June 9, 1995); United States v. Armstrong, 951 F.2d 626, 630 (5th Cir. 1992). Even if the Court were to consider the information in petitioner's objection, nothing contained therein alters the Magistrate Judge's correct conclusion that petitioner learned of the factual predicate of his claim on May 1, 2011, and therefore his claim is untimely. Accordingly, Johnson's petition must be dismissed.
A party has 14 days to object to a magistrate judge's report and recommendation after being served with a copy. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); Fed. R. Civ. P. 72; Douglass v. United Services Auto. Ass'n, 79 F.3d 1415, 1430 (5th Cir. 1996) (en banc). The Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation is dated June 26, 2017, and Johnson's objection was not filed until July 17, 2017.
R. Doc. 8 at 5-6. --------
Furthermore, Rule 11 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Proceedings provides that "[t]he district court must issue or deny a certificate of appealability when it enters a final order adverse to the applicant. Before entering the final order, the court may direct the parties to submit arguments on whether a certificate should issue." Rules Governing Section 2254 Proceedings, Rule 11(a). A court may issue a certificate of appealability only if the petitioner makes "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); Rules Governing Section 2254 Proceedings, Rule 11(a) (noting that § 2253(c)(2) supplies the controlling standard). In Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), the Supreme Court held that the "controlling standard" for a certificate of appealability requires the petitioner to show "that reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented [are] 'adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'" Id. at 336. Petitioner has failed to meet these standards.
IT IS ORDERED that Johnson's petition for habeas corpus is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
New Orleans, Louisiana, this 1st day of August, 2017.
/s/_________
SARAH S. VANCE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE