Vernarde Cotton v. Warden Joyce Francis, No. 08-6661 (4th Cir. 2008)

Annotate this Case

Download PDF

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 08-6661 VERNARDE COTTON, Petitioner - Appellant, v. WARDEN JOYCE FRANCIS, Respondent Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Martinsburg. Frederick P. Stamp, Jr., Senior District Judge. (3:06-cv-00031-FPS-JES) Submitted: October 20, 2008 Decided: December 18, 2008 Before NIEMEYER, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Vernarde Cotton, Appellant Pro Se. Daniel W. Dickinson, Jr., OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Betsy C. Jividen, Assistant United States Attorney, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Vernarde district court s Cotton, orders a federal accepting the prisoner, appeals recommendation the of the magistrate judge and denying relief on Cotton s 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (2000) petition, and denying his Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion for reconsideration. reversible error. We have reviewed the record and find no Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. See Cotton v. Francis, No. 3:06-cv- 00031-FPS-JES (N.D. W. Va. Mar. 12, 2007 & Mar. 28, 2008). dispense with oral argument because the facts and We legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 2

Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.