UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

JAMES A. WILLIS,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

N. L. CONNOR, Warden, United States Penitentiary,

Respondent - Appellee.	No. 02-3216

D.C. No. 02-CV-3017-RDR

(D. Kansas)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before EBEL, LUCERO and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Petitioner James A. Willis files under § 2241 to challenge his federal sentence for the possession and distribution of cocaine. He alleges that his sentence is invalid because (1) the trial court was without jurisdiction and the indictment against him was void, (2) he received ineffective assistance of counsel, and (3) he was a victim of prosecutorial misconduct.

But motions under § 2241, such as the one Willis now files, are generally reserved to challenge the execution of a sentence rather than its validity. Bradshaw v. Story, 86 F.3d 164, 166 (10th Cir. 1996). The proper venue for attacking a sentence itself is under § 2255. 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

Moreover, claims may only be made under § 2241 when the statute is the litigant's exclusive remedy. Bradshaw, 86 F.3d at 166. Willis's claim here is more properly brought under § 2255 as it challenges the validity of his sentence rather than the conditions of his confinement. Id. (holding that a petition under § 2241 cannot be "an additional, alternative, or supplemental remedy to 28 U.S.C. § 2255"). He makes no other showing that § 2255 would be inadequate or ineffective as a remedy. Id.

Mr. Willis's motion to replace pages in his brief is denied as moot. For substantially the reasons stated by the magistrate judge and the district court, we AFFIRM the denial of Willis's § 2241 motion.

ENTERED FOR THE COURT

David M. Ebel

Circuit Judge