Becerra

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ZACK SANCHEZ, Case No. 1:20-cv-00823-DAD-HBK Petitioner, ORDER DENYING BOTH PETITIONER’S

REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF

v. APPEALABILITY AND MOTION TO

PROCEED ON APPEAL IN FORMA

XAVIER BECERRA, PAUPERIS Respondent. (Doc. Nos. 14, 15) 16 17 Petitioner Zack Sanchez, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, moves the court to issue a certificate of appealability and grant him leave to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis. (Doc. Nos. 14, 15.) Petitioner filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus on June 17, 2020, and the previously assigned magistrate judge subsequently issued an order to show cause as to why the petition should not be dismissed due to petitioner’s failure to exhaust one of his claims by presenting it first to the highest state court. (Doc. Nos. 1, 2.) The order to show cause granted petitioner thirty days to seek a stay of his petition for purposes of exhausting his…