Santoro

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SEP 22 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

RONALD D. YOUNG, No. 24-5699

Applicant,

ORDER

v.

KELLY SANTORO,

Respondent.

Before: SILVERMAN, OWENS, and BRESS, Circuit Judges.

The supplemental application for authorization to file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition in the district court is denied as unnecessary because it raises claims solely regarding the denial of the applicant’s petition for resentencing under California Penal Code § 1170.951, which did not become ripe until after the applicant’s prior § 2254 habeas petition was denied. See Brown v. Atchley, 76 F.4th 862, 872-73 & n.1 (9th Cir. 2023). We express no opinion as to the merits of the applicant’s claims or whether the procedural requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(d) and 2254 are satisfied.

After Young filed his petition for resentencing, section 1170.95 was renumbered as section 1172.6 effective June 30, 2022. See Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10. The clerk will transfer the supplemental application filed at Docket Entry No. 23 to the United States District Court for…