Edward Tyrone Malone v. Neil McDowell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 ) EDWARD TYRONE MALONE, ) Case No. CV 20-8065-JAK (JEM) ) Petitioner, ) ) ORDER SUMMARILY DISMISSING v. ) PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS ) CORPUS AND DENYING CERTIFICATE

NEIL MCDOWELL, ) OF APPEALABILITY

) Respondent. ) ) 17 On September 1, 2020, Edward Tyrone Malone (“Petitioner”), a state prisoner 18 proceeding pro se, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus ("Petition" or “Pet.”) pursuant to 19 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which he appears to challenge a 2009 decision by the California Board 20 of Parole Hearings (“Board”) to defer his next parole hearing for ten years pursuant to 21 California law and the state courts’ subsequent determination that his challenge to the 2009 22 parole decision was mooted by the Board’s 2019 parole decision. (Petition at 5-12.)1 23 For the reasons set forth below, the Petition should be…