Grounds

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SHANNON SECREASE, No. 2:13-cv-1565 DAD SCR P Petitioner, v. ORDER RANDY GROUNDS, et al., Respondents. 16 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding through counsel with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. With his petition, petitioner filed a motion to stay these proceedings to permit him to exhaust state remedies. On July 30, 2013, the court found the petition successive, denied the motion to stay as moot, and stayed this action to permit petitioner to seek leave from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) to proceed. (ECF No. 4.) Petitioner was ordered to file a motion to lift the stay within ten days of the Ninth Circuit’s grant of leave to do so. On October 30, 2015, the court ordered petitioner to inform the court about the status of his request to the Ninth Circuit and whether petitioner wished to proceed with this action. (ECF No. 7.) In his…