Warden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DARRELL KING, Case No. 2:23-06444 TJH (ADS)

Petitioner,

ORDER SUMMARILY DISMISSING

v. PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

CORPUS

WARDEN, United States Penitentiary, Victorville 14 Respondent. 15 Darrell King (“Petitioner”) is an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Victorville, California. On August 8, 2023, Petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (“Petition”) challenging the constitutionality of federal compassionate release law. (Dkt. No. 1.) Petitioner claims Congress violated his due process, equal protection, and Eighth Amendment rights by passing federal law that prohibits prisoners like Petitioner, who were convicted of crimes before November 1, 1987, from petitioning a district court for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c). (Id. at 6–7, 10.) Petitioner claims he is a strong candidate for compassionate 24 release and requests an order releasing him from prison due to…