Opinion
No. 00 C 2535
May 3, 2000
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Like his brother Ray Centanni ("Ray"), Paul Centanni ("Paul") originally filed his own self-prepared 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus ("Petition") in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Thereafter Ray's Petition was transferred to this District Court by Honorable Michael Mihm's February 7, 2000 order, and it was in turn assigned directly to this Court's calendar pursuant to LR 40.3(b)(1)(A). That same pattern of transfer (via Honorable Joe Billy McDade's March 20, 2000 order) and assignment to this Court's calendar has now resulted in the deposit of Paul's papers on this Court's desk on April 28.
All further references to Title 28's provisions will simply take the form "Section ___."
As might be expected, the same questions that were posed by Ray's Petition and that were dealt with in this Court's attached March 22, 2000 memorandum opinion and order apply with equal force to Paul's Petition. For the same reasons that this Court set out in that March 22 opinion dealing with Ray's Petition, Paul's Petition is also dismissed without prejudice. And just as this Court directed Ray to do, Paul should tender the matter to our Court of Appeals under Section 2244(b)(3)(A).