Lillard
Lillard v. Duncan
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
California state prisoner Zachary F. Lillard appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as a mixed petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 . A district court’s dismissal of a habeas petition is reviewed de novo, see Miles v. Prunty, 187 F.3d 1104, 1105 (9th Cir.1999), and we vacate and remand.
Lillard contends that the district court erred in dismissing his timely-filed mixed habeas petition. At the time the district court dismissed Lillard’s federal petition, the court did not have the benefit of our decisions in Ford v. Hubbard, 330 F.3d 1086, 1101-02 (9th Cir.2003) (concluding that the district court erred when it failed to inform a pro se petitioner that he would be time-barred upon returning to federal court with exhausted claims), Kelly v. Small, 315 F.3d 1063, 1070 (9th Cir.) (deciding that “the district court must consider the alternative of staying the petition after dismissal of unexhausted claims, in order to permit Petitioner to exhaust those claims and then add them by amendment to his stayed petition.”), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 123 S.Ct. 2094 , 155 L.Ed.2d 1077 (2003).