314 (D.D.C.1957) (Sirica, J.). Despite the civil designation the Clerk of the Court may assign to § 2255 motions for record-keeping purposes, a criminal defendant’s § 2255 motion is a further step in his criminal case. 28 U.S.C. § 2255, advisory committee notes; United States v. Bazemore, 929 F.Supp. 1567, 1568-69 (S.D.Ga.1996). B. The Court Grants the Respondent’s Motion to Dismiss Without Prejudice “The court views pro se pleadings with considerable liberality and holds such pleadings to less stringent standards than those applied to pleadings drafted by lawyers.” Nwachukwu v. Karl, 223 F.Supp.2d 60, 69 (D.D.C.2002) (citing Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520, 92 S.Ct. 594, 30 L.Ed.2d 652 (1972)); Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A., 534 U.S. 506, 512-15, 122 S.Ct. 992, 152 L.Ed.2d 1 (2002) (<HOLDING>); Sparrow v. United Air Lines, Inc., 216 F.3d
recognizing the liberal notice and simplified pleading principles underlying the federal rules of civil procedure holding that our liberal rules of notice pleading do not require that specific evidentiary detail be alleged in the complaint holding rule 8as simplified pleading standard applies to most civil actions holding that liberal pleading standards of rules 8 and 9 applied to prayer for punitive damages holding that a shotgun pleading is in no sense the short and plain statement of a claim required by rule 8 of the federal rules of civil procedure