(HC)Proffitt
(HC)Proffitt v. Covello
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JERRY DANIEL PROFFITT, Case No. 2:20-cv-01958-JDP (HC) Petitioner, ORDER AND FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATION THAT COURT
v. DISMISS PETITION FOR WRIT OF
HABEAS CORPUS AT SCREENING
PATRICK COVELLO, ECF No. 10 Respondent. 16 Petitioner Jerry Daniel Proffitt, a state prisoner without counsel, seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. ECF No. 10. Petitioner has also filed two motions to proceed in forma pauperis, ECF Nos. 8 & 11, the second of which makes the required showing and will be granted. The petition raises claims related to a conviction2 that occurred in June of 2001. ECF No. 10 at 1, 70. The claims are difficult to understand because the petition is disorganized; handwritten pages are interspersed with state court documents. As best I can tell, petitioner alleges that, in 2004, he became convinced that the minors accusing him of inappropriate 24
1 Before I screened his initial petition, ECF No. 1,…