Johnny Guevara v. Ralph Diaz
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHNNY GUEVARA, Case No. 8:20-cv-00854-JFW-KES Petitioner,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY
v.
HABEAS PETITION SHOULD NOT BE
RALPH DIAZ, DISMISSED AS SUCCESSIVE Respondent. 16 I. INTRODUCTION In May 2020, Petitioner Johnny Guevara (“Petitioner”) filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Dkt. 1 [the “Petition”].) The Petition challenges Petitioner’s 2011 convictions for first-degree murder, car-jacking, street terrorism, and other crimes for which he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus 25 years to life. (Id. at 2.) II. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND A. Guevara I. Petitioner pursued a direct appeal that ended when the California Supreme Court denied review in September 2012. (Id. at 2-3.) In October 2013, he filed a § 2254 petition in…