Clifford Chaun Loyer v. Patrick Covello

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD CHAUN LOYER, ) Case No. 8:19-cv-02035-PSG-JC ) Petitioner, ) v. ) ) ) ) ORDER SUMMARILY DISMISSING

PATRICK COVELLO, ) PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

) CORPUS ) Respondent. ) ____________________________ ) 16 I. SUMMARY On October 12, 2019, petitioner Clifford Chaun Loyer, a state prisoner who is proceeding pro se, signed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody (“Petition”) which was formally filed on October 24, 2019. Petitioner challenges his conviction in Orange County Superior Court Case No. 16WF1726 on four somewhat overlapping grounds: (1) his warrantless arrest on August 2, 2016 violated the Fourth Amendment; (2) his arrest and detention in jail for many hours without booking, fingerprinting, photographing or a phone call, and the use of force against him violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process; (3) his…