Butz
Butz v. Mendoza-Powers
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
GEORGE FRANKLIN BUTZ, No. 06-71137 Petitioner, D.C. No. v. CV-98-07584- KATHY MENDOZA-POWERS, Acting ER-AN Central District Warden, Respondent. of California, Los Angeles
ORDER
Filed February 1, 2007
Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt and Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.
COUNSEL
Rich Pfeiffer, Santa Ana, California, for the petitioner.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Tita Nguyen, Deputy Attorney General, for the respondent.
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
Petitioner George Franklin Butz (“Butz”) filed an applica- tion for permission to file a second or successive petition for 1209 1210 BUTZ v. MENDOZA-POWERS writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Butz seeks consideration of the merits of claims presented in his first habeas petition. The district court dismissed that…