Eugene N. Wilson v. Warden J.c. Streeval

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 21-7455
EUGENE N. WILSON,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
WARDEN J.C. STREEVAL,
Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at
Roanoke. Michael F. Urbanski, Chief District Judge. (7:20-cv-00307-MFU-JCH)
Submitted: March 29, 2022 Decided: April 1, 2022
Before HARRIS, QUATTLEBAUM, and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Eugene N. Wilson, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Eugene N. Wilson, a federal prisoner, appeals the district court’s order dismissing
for lack of jurisdiction Wilson’s 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition in which Wilson sought to
challenge his sentence and three of his convictions by way of the savings clause in 28
U.S.C. § 2255. Pursuant to § 2255(e), a prisoner may challenge his conviction and
sentence in a traditional writ of habeas corpus pursuant to § 2241 if a § 2255 motion would
be inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.
[Section] 2255 is inadequate and ineffective to test the legality of a sentence
when: (1) at the time of sentencing, settled law of this circuit or the Supreme
Court established the legality of the sentence; (2) subsequent to the prisoner’s
direct appeal and first § 2255 motion, the aforementioned settled substantive
law changed and was deemed to apply retroactively on collateral review;
(3) the prisoner is unable to meet the gatekeeping provisions of § 2255(h)(2)
for second or successive motions; and (4) due to this retroactive change, the
sentence now presents an error sufficiently grave to be deemed a fundamental
defect.
United States v. Wheeler, 886 F.3d 415, 429 (4th Cir. 2018). In addition,
[Section] 2255 is inadequate and ineffective to test the legality of a
conviction when: (1) at the time of conviction, settled law of this circuit or
the Supreme Court established the legality of the conviction; (2) subsequent
to the prisoner’s direct appeal and first § 2255 motion, the substantive law
changed such that the conduct of which the prisoner was convicted is deemed
not to be criminal; and (3) the prisoner cannot satisfy the gatekeeping
provisions of § 2255 because the new rule is not one of constitutional law.
In re Jones, 226 F.3d 328, 333-34 (4th Cir. 2000).
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Greer v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 2090
(2021), we discern no error in the district court’s ruling that Wilson could not satisfy either
the Wheeler test or the In re Jones standard. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s
order. Wilson v. Streeval, No. 7:20-cv-00307-MFU-JCH (W.D. Va. filed Sept. 21, 2021;

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entered Sept. 27, 2021). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal
contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED

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