Elijah Pouncey v. Craig Koenig
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA-WESTERN DIVISION
11 12 ELIJAH POUNCEY, ) Case No. CV 21-00128-PSG (AS) ) Petitioner, ) ORDER OF DISMISSAL ) ) v. ) )
CRAIG KOENIG, )
) Respondent. ) ) 19 BACKGROUND 21 On January 4, 2021, Elijah Pouncey (“Petitioner”), a California state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a “Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus” (Dkt. No. 1), which the Court construed as a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody 26 27 28 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”) (see Dkt. No. 3 at 1).1 Petitioner challenges his 25-years-to-life sentence imposed under California’s Three Strikes Law resulting from his 2010 convictions for possession of a firearm by a felon and for possession of ammunition by a felon, in Los Angeles County Superior Court (Case No. BA369280).2 7 Petitioner contends that two…