Burton

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CLIFTON ROBERT HICKS, No. 2:18-cv-2237 JAM DB P Petitioner, v. ORDER ROBERT BURTON, Respondent. 16 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner challenges his 2017 conviction in the Yolo County Superior Court. Presently before the court is respondent’s motion to dismiss (ECF No. 16), petitioner’s motion to delete claims (ECF No. 18), petitioner’s motion for stay (ECF No. 20), and petitioner’s request for the stay to be lifted (ECF No. 23). Petitioner initiated this action by filing the petition on August 8, 2018. (ECF No. 1.) Thereafter, petitioner filed a first amended petition. (ECF No. 7.) Therein, petitioner challenges his March 10, 2017 convictions for second degree robbery, evading a police officer, attempted kidnapping, and infliction of corporal injury on a spouse. (Id. at 1.) Petitioner alleges…