Romero

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JULIAN DANIEL ROMERO, Case No. 25-cv-07079-YGR (PR)

Petitioner, ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT

PREJUDICE

v.

CHANCE ANDES, Warden,

Respondent.

This action was reassigned from a magistrate judge to the undersigned in light of a Ninth Circuit decision. Petitioner Julian Daniel Romero, who is currently being held at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Dkt. 1. He has paid the full filing fee. Dkt. 7. In the instant petition, petitioner did not exhaust his state remedies by presenting all his claims to the highest level of review—the California Supreme Court—before filing his petition. See Dkt. 1. Specifically, petitioner raises a claim under the Racial Justice Act, but the petition indicates he did not present this claim to the California Supreme Court. See id. at 4. Nothing in the record shows that petitioner pursued this claim by filing a habeas petition in the California …