Pollard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAJUAN BELL, Case No. 1:21-cv-00291-NONE-EPG-HC

Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION TO

GRANT RESPONDENT’S MOTION TO

v. DISMISS AND DISMISS PETITION FOR

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS WITHOUT

MARCUS POLLARD, PREJUDICE

Respondent. (ECF No. 8)

15 Petitioner JaJuan Bell is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his 2012 Kern County Superior Court convictions. Based on abstention principles, the undersigned recommends declining to intervene in the state proceedings, granting Respondent’s motion to dismiss, and dismissing the petition without prejudice. I. BACKGROUND Petitioner was convicted after a jury trial in the Kern County Superior Court of four counts of second-degree robbery, six counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, five counts of assault with an assault weapon, two counts of…