Norris L. Reese v. Ron Broomfield

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 10 NORRIS L. REESE, ) Case No. 2:21-cv-04342-SVW-JC 11 ) Petitioner, ) ) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY 12 v. ) THE PETITION FOR WRIT OF ) HABEAS CORPUS AND THIS 13 RON BROOMFIELD, ) ACTION SHOULD NOT BE ) DISMISSED 14 Respondent. ) ) 15 16

I. SUMMARY

17 On May 24, 2021, petitioner Norris L. Reese (sometimes spelled “Reece”), a 18 state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a 19 Person in State Custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”) with attachments 20 (“Petition Ex.”), which appears to challenge his 98-years-to-life sentence imposed in 21 1982 in Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. A363127, for two counts of 22 first degree murder, one count of involuntary manslaughter, three (or four) robbery 23 counts and one burglary count. See Petition at 2, 5-6 (stating that the Petition 24 concerns a “[d]isproportionate [t]erm of [i]ncarceration for a 16 year old child”). 25 The Petition purports to raise two claims for relief: (1) petitioner’s…