Frank Young v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Frank Young, a Florida state prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition as an unauthorized second or successive petition. Mr. Young argues that the district court erred by dismissing his numerically-second § 2254 petition for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Upon review of the record and the parties’ briefs, we affirm.

I

In November of 2013, Mr. Young filed an amended initial § 2254 petition challenging his 2010 Florida convictions for armed burglary, aggravated assault, and shooting or throwing a deadly missile into an…