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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO 
 
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
 
 Plaintiff, 
 
v. 
 
RICKY SIMMONDS, 
 
 Defendant. 
 
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CASE NO. 1:20-cr-00707 
 
ORDER 
[Resolving Docs. 359 & 367] 
 
 
JAMES S. GWIN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE: 
 
 Federal inmate Ricky Simmonds files two postconviction motions.  Neither succeeds. 
First, Simmonds asks the Court to modify or defer fines and a special assessment , 
totaling $12,700, Simmonds owes the government.  After Simmonds refused to make a $150 
monthly installment payment, the BOP imposed sanctions, including restricting Simmonds’s 
spending and garnishing any Simmonds account deposits.   
The Probation Office says that Simmonds and the government have since renegotiated 
a $50-per-month automatic-deduction payment plan, which removes the payment-refusal 
sanctions.
1  In light of this new payment plan, the Court DENIES Simmonds’s motion to defer 
or modify the fines and assessment. 
 Second, Simmonds asks for an order transferring custody of seized ammunition so 
that the ammunition can be sold and the proceeds credited against Simmonds’s debt.  But 
Simmonds already forfeited th e ammunition to the United States. 2  Because Simmonds no 
longer has any property interest in the ammunition, the Court DENIES the transfer motion.  
 
1 Doc. 360. 
2 Doc. 342. 
Case: 1:20-cr-00707-JPC  Doc #: 369  Filed:  08/02/23  1 of 2.  PageID #: <pageID>
Case No. 1:20-cr-00707 
GWIN, J. 
 
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 IT IS SO ORDERED. 
 
Dated: August 2, 2023 s/ James S. Gwin   
JAMES S. GWIN 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 
 
Case: 1:20-cr-00707-JPC  Doc #: 369  Filed:  08/02/23  2 of 2.  PageID #: <pageID>

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