Drake

CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL

Case No. CV 20-4088 ODW (PVC) Date: July 20, 2020 Title Robert Lee Jenkins, Jr. v. C/O Drake

Present: The Honorable Pedro V. Castillo, United States Magistrate Judge

Marlene Ramirez None Deputy Clerk Court Reporter / Recorder Attorneys Present for Petitioner: Attorneys Present for Respondent: None None

PROCEEDINGS: [IN CHAMBERS] ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THE

MAGISTRATE JUDGE SHOULD NOT RECOMMEND THAT

THIS ACTION BE DISMISSED FOR LACK OF HABEAS

JURISDICTION

Pending before the Court is a habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by Robert Lee Jenkins, Jr., a California state prisoner state prisoner proceeding pro se. (“Petition,” Dkt. No. 1). Petitioner is serving two consecutive life terms with the possibility of parole, plus a consecutive determinate eight month term, pursuant to his 1992 convictions in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on two counts of torture, one count of mayhem, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of corporal injury to a cohabitant, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. (See Robert Lee Jenkins, Jr. v. On…