FILED
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NOV 1 6 2012
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Clerk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy
Courts for the District of Columbia
Adam Troy Kittrell, )
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Petitioner, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 12 1859
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United States of America, )
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Respondent. )
MEMORANDUM OPINION
The petitioner, proceeding prose, has submitted an application for a writ of habeas
corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, along with an application to proceed in forma pauperis. The
Court will grant the application to proceed in forma pauperis and will dismiss the case for lack
of jurisdiction.
The petitioner is a North Carolina state prisoner incarcerated at the Johnston Correctional
Institution in Smithfield, North Carolina. He is challenging his state conviction following his
plea of guilty. See Petition at 1, 6. Federal court review of state convictions is available under
28 U.S.C. § 2254 only after the exhaustion of available state remedies. See 28 U.S.C.
§2254(b)(1 ). Thereafter, "an application for a writ of habeas corpus [] made by a person in
custody under the judgment and sentence of a State court ... may be filed in the district court for
the district wherein such person is in custody or in the district court for the district within which
the State court was held which convicted and sentenced [petitioner] and each of such district
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courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the application." 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d).
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Because the petitioner has no recourse in the District of Columbia, this action will be dismissed.
Date: October :2.t, 2012
A separate Order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.
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