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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENI LAMONT PAULK II, Case No. 5:19-cv-01506-FMO (GJS) Petitioner

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE:

v. POSSIBLE DISMISSAL FOR

UNTIMELINESS

UNKNOWN,

Respondent.

On November 1, 2018, Petitioner filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California [Dkt. 1,“Petition”]. The Petition stems from Petitioner’s late 2003 conviction in San Bernardino County Superior Court Case No. FSB40026 (the “State Conviction”). (Petition at 1.)1 On November 13, 2018, the Southern District ordered that the Petition be transferred to this District [Dkt. 2]. It appears that the case file was transferred electronically to the Clerk’s Office on or about that same day, but for reasons unclear to the Court, the Petition was not assigned a new case number and referred to the undersigned until August 13, 2019.

28 Pursuant to Rule 201 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Court has reviewed and takes 1 After he…