Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JORGE CONTRERAS, Case No. 1:19-cv-01523-JLT

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER DIRECTING THE FILING

OF POST-EXHAUSTION STATUS

RAUL MORALES, Acting Warden of the CONFERENCE STATEMENT(S) California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, 15 Respondent.1 16 17 On September 6, 2024, petitioner, through appointed counsel, filed a status update regarding his state exhaustion petition. (Doc. 136.) Therein, petitioner advised that “[t]he California Supreme Court denied [his] petition for review on July 31, 2024[,] [s]ee In re George Lopez Contreras on Habeas Corpus, Case No. S285502[,] and that “[t]he state exhaustion proceedings are now completed; however, a petition pursuant to the California Racial Justice Act remains pending in the California Court of Appeal[,] [s]ee In re George Lopez Contreras on Habeas Corpus, 5th District Case No. F088110.” (Id. at 2.) The record in the case reflects that on January 8, 2024, following…