Hoadena Ingram v. Habeas Corpus

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 HOADENA INGRAM, Case No. 5:20-cv-01527-JVS-MAA 12 Petitioner, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION

AND DISMISSING ACTION

13 v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE 14 HABEAS CORPUS, 15 Respondent. 16 17 18 I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 19 On July 30, 2020, the Court received and filed Petitioner Hoadena Ingram’s 20 (“Petitioner”) pro se Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State 21 Custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”). (Pet., ECF No. 1.) Petitioner 22 challenges a 2013 sentencing enhancement that was based on prior convictions 23 obtained by guilty plea. (Id. at 2–3.)1 He relies on a 2019 state legislative 24 enactment, California Assembly Bill No. 1618, which renders void as against 25 public policy certain guilty plea agreements that include a waiver of the right to 26 raise claims based on future changes in the law. (Id. at 3–5.) 27 1 Pinpoint citations of filings in this Order refer to the page numbers appearing in the 28 ECF-generated headers. 1 …