Gastelo

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 WILLIAM RAY BARTON, No. 2:19-cv-2126 AC P Petitioner, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

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JOSIE GASTELO,

Respondent. 15 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petition is related to petitioner’s 1976 conviction in the San Joaquin County Superior Court. ECF No. 1 at 1. However, the petition is sparsely worded and although it is not entirely clear, petitioner appears to challenge the denial of a certificate of appealability by the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Barton v. Superior Court, No. 2:18- cv-6853 FMO RAO. Id. at 2-4, 6. Moreover, review of this court’s own records2 demonstrates that petitioner has filed several habeas petitions within the last year and a half, and only the first-filed case, Barton v.

Review of the petition in that case shows that it was also…