Warden

INTRODUCTION

19 On December 15, 2022, the Court received from Frank Dixon 20 (“Petitioner”), a California state prisoner at North Kern State Prison 21 proceeding pro se, a “Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus” on a California state 22 form, seeking to challenge a July 2019 conviction following a jury trial and 23 August 2019 sentence of 17 years and four months imposed by the Superior 24 Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles County for violations 25 of “12022.7(A) 667(A)(1). Dkt. 1 (“Petition” or “Pet.”) at 2. 26 Under Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United 27 States District Courts (“Habeas Rules”), the Court has reviewed the Petition, 28 Case 2:22-cv-09135-AB-JDE Document Filed 12/20/ Page 2 of Page ID #:

finds it appears to suffer from several defects and orders Petitioner to respond as set forth further below. II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY As noted, the judgment of conviction that Petitioner seeks to challenge was imposed by the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2019 in case number VA146759. Pet at 2. The Petition asserts a single ground for…