Sierra-Serrano v. Warden, FCI Sandstone

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano,
Petitioner,
v.
Warden, FCI Sandstone,
Respondent.
No. 25-cv-2274 (KMM/EMB)
ORDER
This matter is before the Court on Petitioner Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano’s request
for permission to file a motion for reconsideration. (Dkt. 20.) Specifically, he would like
the Court to reconsider its Order adopting the Report and Recommendation (R&R) issued
by United States Magistrate Judge Elsa M. Bullard and denying his Petition for a Writ of
Habeas Corpus. (Dkt. 18.) The request is denied.
In making his request, Mr. Sierra-Serrano points the Court to a new policy
implemented by the Federal Bureau of Prisons that, according to him, supports the
conditional placement date he has calculated. (Dkt. 20 at 1.) However, even by his
calculation, Mr. Sierra-Serrano’s conditional placement date is still over one year away.
Therefore, the Court’s stated reasons for denying his habeas petition in the Order—because
the Court cannot calculate a release date both because it is too early to do so and because
it is the BOP’s job to do so in the first instance—still hold true. (Dkt. 18 at 2.) In the absence
of the “compelling circumstances” required for a court to grant leave to file a motion to
reconsider, the Court denies the request. See D. Minn. LR 7.1(j).
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ORDER
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Petitioner Edgar Manuel Sierra-
Serrano’s request for permission to file a motion for reconsideration is DENIED.
Date: April 22, 2026 	s/Katherine M. Menendez
Katherine M. Menendez
United States District Judge
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