Elias Nicholas Ramirez v. Michael Hestrin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELIAS NICHOLAS RAMIREZ, CASE NO. 5:25-cv-01740-WLH (SK)

Plaintiff, ORDER DISMISSING ACTION

v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE

MICHAEL HESTRIN, et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiff Elias Ramirez is a pretrial detainee facing felony assault charges in an ongoing state criminal case filed in Riverside County Superior Court. (See Riverside County Super. Ct. Case No. INF2301428).1 In his pro se complaint, Plaintiff alleges—as the only discernible federal-law claim— that he received no judicial determination of probable cause within 48 hours of his warrantless arrest as required by County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44, 57 (1991). (ECF 1 at 5).2 He names as defendants every known district attorney evidently involved in his active criminal prosecution and a superior court judge who Plaintiff claims vaguely acted as a “court

1 The Court may take judicial notice of public records in state court dockets. See Trigueros v. Adams, 658 F.3d 983, 987 (9th Cir. 2011).

2 Plaintiff asserts a variety of other things in his complaint that are inscrutable, including references to “King George,” the federal…