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6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WESTERN DIVISION 11 RONNIE LEWIS, ) No. 2:24-cv-00805-JVS-JDE ) 12 Petitioner, ) ) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE 13 v. ) ) WHY THE PETITION SHOULD 14 UNKNOWN, ) ) NOT BE DISMISSED ) 15 Respondent. ) ) 16

17 18 I. 19 INTRODUCTION 20 On February 1, 2024, the Court received from Ronnie Lewis 21 (“Petitioner”), a California state prisoner at the California Correctional 22 Institution in Tehachapi, California, proceeding pro se and without paying the 23 required filing fee or seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis, a Petition for 24 Writ of Habeas Corpus, on a state court form, seeking to challenge his 2017 25 convictions for pimping and human trafficking of a minor for a commercial sex 26 act, resulting in a sentence of two consecutive terms of life with the possibility 27 of parole, in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Dkt. 1 (“Petition” or 28 “Pet.”) at 2…