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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA WESTERN DIVISION RONNIE LEWIS, ) No. 2:24-cv-00805-JVS-JDE ) Petitioner, ) ) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE v. ) ) WHY THE PETITION SHOULD UNKNOWN, ) ) NOT BE DISMISSED ) Respondent. ) )

17 I. INTRODUCTION On February 1, 2024, the Court received from Ronnie Lewis (“Petitioner”), a California state prisoner at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, California, proceeding pro se and without paying the required filing fee or seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis, a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, on a state court form, seeking to challenge his 2017 convictions for pimping and human trafficking of a minor for a commercial sex act, resulting in a sentence of two consecutive terms of life with the possibility of parole, in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Dkt. 1 (“Petition” or “Pet.”) at 2…