Sid Edward Willis v. USP Victorville

Case 5:22-cv-01520-DOC-SK Document Filed 10/07/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SID EDWARD WILLIS, JR., Case No. 5:22-cv-1520-DOC (SK) Petitioner,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v. WHY PETITION SHOULD NOT

BE SUMMARILY DISMISSED

USP VICTORVILLE,

AND PETITIONER SHOULD

Respondent. NOT BE DECLARED A

VEXATIOUS LITIGANT

Petitioner is a federal prisoner convicted and sentenced many years ago in the District of Oregon under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). After unsuccessfully challenging his armed career criminal designation in that district with a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Petitioner filed in this district four successive—and substantively identical— petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking to collaterally attack his ACCA sentence. None of those survived the pleading stage: the first two were transferred to the original sentencing court (Nos. 2:18-cv-03370-DOC and 2:18-cv-10278-DOC), after which they were denied there for procedural flaws; the third was dismissed here for lack of jurisdiction with prejudice (No. 2:20-cv-04142-DOC, ECF 16); and the fourth was…