Owen Garth Hinkson v. Warden of FCI Lompoc
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I.
BACKGROUND
On February 21, 2017, a grand jury indicted Petitioner Owen Garth Hinkson (“Petitioner”) on one (1) count of illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported and removed (8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)), which Plaintiff subsequently pled guilty to. United States v. Hinkson, 744 F. App’x 656, 659 (11th Cir. 2018). The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Petitioner to seventy-two (72) months’ imprisonment to run consecutively to Petitioner’s twenty-four (24) month sentence for violating the terms of his supervised release from his 2015 illegal reentry conviction. Id. at 660–61. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment as to Petitioner’s convictions. Id. at 663.
On February 8, 2018, Petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of Coram Nobis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Hinkson v. United States, No. 1:18-CV-64, 2020 WL 8621515 (E.D. Tex. Nov. 23, 2020), report and recommendation adopted, No. 1:18-CV- 64, 2021 WL 706719 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 22, 2021). On November 23, 2020, the magistrate judge issued a Report…