Valentine Valdez v. John Sutton

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 VALENTINE VALDEZ, ) Case No. 2:20-cv-10208-JC ) Petitioner, ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND v. ) ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO ) DISMISS AND DISMISSING HEATHER SHIRLEY, ) PETITION AND ACTION WITH ) PREJUDICE ) Respondent. ) (DOCKET NO. 9) 16

I. SUMMARY

18 Effective November 2, 2020,2 petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas 19 Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”) with exhibits (“Petition Ex.”) 20 challenging a 2011 judgment in Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. 21 MA052367 (“State Case”). (Petition at 2). 22 23 1Heather Shirley, the Acting Warden of Wasco State Prison, is substituted in as the respondent. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). 25 2“When a prisoner gives prison authorities a habeas petition or other pleading to mail to 26 court, [pursuant to the mailbox rule,] the court deems the petition constructively ‘filed’ on the date it is signed[,]” Roberts v. Marshall, 627 F.3d 768, 770 n.1 (9th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 897…