Gonzales v. Manis, No. 1:2015cv01584 - Document 52 (E.D. Va. 2020)
Court Description: MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by District Judge Liam O'Grady on 8/6/2020. (lcre, )(c/s)
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Gonzales v. Manis Doc. 52 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 1 of 10 PageID# 403 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division Francis M. Gonzales, Petitioner, I:15cvl584(LO/TCB) V. Carl Manis, Respondent. MEMORDANDUM OPINION In November 2015, contesting his state conviction for simple abduction, Virginia state prisoner Francis Gonzales filed in this Court a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. ยง 2254, thus beginning the five-year saga ofthese federal habeas proceedings. Dkt. No. 1. Currently under consideration are several pending motions filed by the parties. The first is petitioner's motion to amend the Order through which his petition was dismissed with prejudice. The second is respondent's motion to dismiss as successive the petition Gonzales has filed since the issuance ofthe original dismissal Order. For the reasons explained below, petitioner's motion to amend must be denied, and respondent's motion to dismiss must be granted. I. Background Over a five-year span, petitioner has filed numerous lengthy, often duplicative, and sometimes untimely filings in this Court and in his parallel state post-conviction proceedings. These many submissions combine to produce a procedural history that is borderline unnavigable. What follows is this Court's best attempt to distill and explain the events relevant to these federal proceedings. Dockets.Justia.com Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 2 of 10 PageID# 404 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 3 of 10 PageID# 405 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 4 of 10 PageID# 406 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 5 of 10 PageID# 407 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 6 of 10 PageID# 408 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 7 of 10 PageID# 409 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 8 of 10 PageID# 410 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 9 of 10 PageID# 411 Case 1:15-cv-01584-LO-TCB Document 52 Filed 08/06/20 Page 10 of 10 PageID# 412
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