In Re Sparks

Tony Sparks, federal prisoner # 91929-080, moves this court for authorization to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, Sparks also moves this court to appoint as his counsel the attorney who filed the instant motion.

Sparks was convicted in federal court, on a guilty plea, of aiding and abetting a carjacking resulting in death, an offense he committed when he was sixteen years old. The district court sentenced him in 2001 to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.…