(HC) Barton v. San Joaquin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WILLIAM RAY BARTON, No. 2:19-cv-02258 AC P Petitioner, v. ORDER SAN JOAQUIN, Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, together with an application to proceed in forma pauperis. The instant habeas petition reflects an attempt to challenge petitioner’s 1976 sentence in the San Joaquin County Superior Court. ECF No. 1 at 1. However, the petition is sparsely worded with incomprehensible responses to most of the questions posed by the form habeas petition. Id. Moreover, review of this court’s own records1 demonstrates that petitioner has filed several habeas petitions this year. Only the first-filed case, Barton v. Beddick, Case No. 2:19-cv- 0148 DMC P, which challenges petitioner’s 1975 conviction for murder and resulting 1976

26 This court may take judicial notice of its own records and the records of other courts. …