(HC) Williams v. The State Bar of California
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS, Case No. 1:21-cv-01228-AWI-SAB-HC
Petitioner,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY
v. PETITION SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED
THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA,
Respondent.
16 I. BACKGROUND Petitioner is currently confined at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. (ECF No. 1 at 1).1 In the instant federal habeas petition, Petitioner appears to challenge the State Bar of California’s decision declining to take disciplinary action against prosecutors involved in charging Petitioner in the Kings County Superior Court of a violation of California Penal Code section 4501.5 (battery on a non-confined person by a prisoner). Petitioner argues that the State Bar of California “erroneously failed to find that Petitioner[’s] criminal prosecution by the Kings County District Attorney’s Office is part of an ongoing practice of systemic racism where meritorious evidence favorable to the accused is…