Felix Federico Nicolas, Jr v. The Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara

BACKGROUND

Petitioner, a California inmate proceeding pro se, initiated this action by filing the pending Petition, described further below, on February 3, 2025. (Dkt. No. 1.)

I. Relevant State Court Proceedings

Petitioner’s publicly-available state court records1 establish that Petitioner is serving a sentence of 195 years to life, plus eleven years and four months, pursuant to a conviction in the Santa Barbara County Superior Court of two counts of solicitation of murder, two counts of forcible lewd act upon a child; two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, oral copulation; four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, forcible rape; four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, sexual penetration; one count of oral copulation of a child under the age of 14; and one count of attempted sodomy of a person under 18. People v. Nicolas, No. B254334, 2015 WL 3770758, at *1 (Cal. Ct. App. June 17, 2015).

Petitioner was convicted on November 21, 2013, and sentenced on December 18, 2013. People v. Nicolas, Criminal Case No. 1350158, available at https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/online-services/case-records-search …