Charles Bruce Nabors v. United States

Charles Bruce Nabors appeals from the district court’s orders adopting the magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss Na-bors’s petition for habeas corpus relief and denying his Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motion for relief. Because the district court did not conduct the required de novo review, we remand the case to the district court for further proceedings.

Nabors filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1988), which the district court referred to a magistrate pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) (1988). The magistrate conducted an evidentiary hearing and issued proposed findings and a…