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Case 2:22-cv-00127-JVS Document Filed 01/15/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER SATTIEWHITE, ) CASE NO. CV 22-127-JVS ) Petitioner, ) DEATH PENALTY CASE ) v. ) ) ORDER DISMISSING PETITION RON BROOMFIELD, Warden, ) FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS California State Prison at San ) WITHOUT PREJUDICE Quentin, ) ) Respondent. ) ) 17 I. INTRODUCTION In January 2015, Petitioner Christopher Sattiewhite submitted a handwritten request for the appointment of counsel. In it, Petitioner complained that since the date on which his conviction and sentence were upheld on direct appeal in People v. Sattiewhite, 59 Cal. 4th 446 (2014), he had not been appointed state habeas counsel. This Court denied Petitioner’s request for the appointment of counsel as presumptively premature because Petitioner had not exhausted his state court remedies. In October 2020, Petitioner sought to commence federal…