United States v. Durham

ORDER

TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.

This case comes before the Court on Magistrate Judge E. Clayton Scofield’s Report and Recommendation (the “R & R”) [108], which recommends that Defendants’ motions to dismiss and requests for a hearing [85, 88, 89, 92] be denied. Defendants Kelvin Durham, Marcus Davis, and Jabari Albert have filed objections to the R & R [111, 112, 113].1

A district judge has a duty to conduct a “careful and complete” review of a magistrate judge’s R & R. Williams v. Wainwright, 681 F.2d 732, 732 (11th Cir.1982) (quoting Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404, 408 (5th…