(HC) Williams v. The State Bar of California

BACKGROUND

19 Petitioner is currently confined at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. (ECF 20 No. 1 at 1).1 On August 13, 2021, Petitioner filed the instant federal habeas petition wherein he 21 appears to challenge the State Bar of California’s decision declining to take disciplinary action 22 against prosecutors involved in charging Petitioner in the Kings County Superior Court of a 23 violation of California Penal Code section 4501. (battery on a non-confined person by a 24 prisoner). (ECF No. 1). Petitioner argues that the State Bar of California “erroneously failed to 25 find that Petitioner[’s] criminal prosecution by the Kings County District Attorney’s Office is 26 part of an ongoing practice of systemic racism where meritorious evidence favorable to the 27 accused is intentionally lost and destroyed as a prosecuting strategy to secure convictions against minority prisoners.” (Id. at 5). On August 31, 2021, the Court ordered Petitioner to show cause why the petition should not be dismissed based on Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), failure to exhaust state judicial remedies, and failure to state a cognizable federal habeas…