Ruben Herrera v. Secretary of Corrections

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 RUBEN HERRERA, ) Case No. EDCV 21-0329-CJC (JPR) ) Petitioner, ) ) ORDER SUMMARILY DISMISSING v. ) PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS ) CORPUS FOR LACK OF SUBJECT-MATTER SECRETARY OF CORRECTIONS, ) JURISDICTION ) Respondent. ) ) 16 On March 2, 2021, Petitioner filed a Habeas Corpus Petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. It challenges his 2014 convictions and sentence in Los Angeles County Superior Court for various sex- related offenses. (Pet. at 2.)1 This is not Petitioner’s first federal habeas petition, however. His 2017 petition challenging the same judgment was denied as untimely. See R. & R., Herrera v. Sec’y of Corrs., No. CV 17-5874-CJC (JPR), 2018 WL 3424583, at *11 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 5, 25 1 In both this Petition and the earlier one discussed herein, Petitioner describes his convictions as having occurred in 2013. 27 In fact, he was convicted in July 2014. See Lodged Doc. 1, 3 Clerk’s Tr. at 626-32, Herrera v. Sec’y of Corrs., No. CV 17-5874- CJC…