Steve Wayne Daniels v. Sircoya M. Williams

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STEVE WAYNE DANIELS, No. 2:25-cv-1939 AC P Petitioner, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS &

RECOMMENDATIONS

SIRCOYA M. WILLIAMS, Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. I. Procedural History On February 9, 2022, petitioner was convicted of multiple offenses in Sacramento County Superior Court. ECF No. 1 at 1. He appealed the conviction up to the California Supreme Court, which denied his petition for review on July 24, 2024. Id. at 2-3. Petitioner did not petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, id. at 2, and his judgment became final on October 22, 2024, at the expiration of the ninety-day period to seek certiorari, Clay v. United States, 537 U.S. 522, 528 n.3 (2003); Bowen v. Roe, 188 F.3d 1157, 1159 (9th Cir. 1999). At the time of filing the federal petition, petitioner had not filed any state…