Armstrong
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
DENNIS L. ARMSTRONG,
Case No. 24-cv-05580-RS (PR) Petitioner, 9 v. ORDER OF DISMISSAL
ROB ST. ANDRE,
11 Respondent.
13 INTRODUCTION Petitioner has filed a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he challenges the same state court judgment he challenged in a prior section 2254 habeas action he filed in this district, Armstrong v. Runnels, No. 03-cv-03374-SI. The present petition will be dismissed as second or successive to the prior petition. Petitioner’s application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) is GRANTED. (Dkt. No. 14.) BACKGROUND The first habeas petition challenged the 2000 California state convictions petitioner received in the Alameda County Superior Court for robbery, for which he received a sentence of 31 years and four months. The petition was denied on the merits. (Armstrong v. Runnels, No. 03-cv-03374-SI, Dkt. No. 13.) His appeal of this denial was…