Lazano

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RICO LYNTICE RILEY, No. 2: 18-cv-3050 KJN P Petitioner, v. ORDER JARED D. LAZANO, Respondent. 16 Petitioner is state prisoner, proceeding without counsel, with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner raises four claims for relief: 1) Batson1 error; 2) unavailability of jury questionnaires renders review of Batson claim unfair; 3) ineffective assistance of trial counsel; and 4) ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. Petitioner exhausted claims one and two. In the petition, petitioner alleged that claims three and four were pending in a habeas corpus petition filed in the Sacramento County Superior Court. Pending before the court is petitioner’s May 15, 2019 motion to stay this action pending exhaustion of his unexhausted claims. (ECF No. 9.) On October 9, 2019, petitioner filed a letter with the court alleging that he sent a habeas corpus petition to the California Supreme…