James Peek v. State of California

BACKGROUND

The Petition states that Petitioner is in custody following an August 2024 adjudication in the Riverside County Superior Court that he committed a “probation/parole violation” based on the failure to register as a sex offender and possession of methamphetamine. (Pet. at 2.) Petitioner states that he was sentenced to two years in prison for the violation, and his claims raise constitutional challenges to the probation/parole violation ruling in the trial court. (Id. at 3-4.) Petitioner provides two case numbers (RIF2402746 and RIF2304317), which are presumably the criminal case numbers for the charges of failing to register and possession of methamphetamine, but states that he does not know “the case number for the violation charge.” (Id. at 2.)

CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL

Case No. 5:24-cv-02702-SRM-KS Date: April 28, 2025 Title James Peek v. State of California

Petitioner does not claim to have appealed the decision to the California Court of Appeal, and this Court’s review of the publicly available records in both the Riverside County Superior Court and the California Court of Appeal does not indicate that any direct appeal has been filed in…