Valentine Valdez v. John Sutton
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 11 VALENTINE VALDEZ, ) Case No. 2:20-cv-10208-JC ) 12 Petitioner, ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND 13 v. ) ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO ) DISMISS AND DISMISSING 14 HEATHER SHIRLEY,1 ) PETITION AND ACTION WITH ) PREJUDICE 15 ) Respondent. ) (DOCKET NO. 9) 16 17
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 24 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 27 date it is signed[,]” Roberts v. Marshall, 627 F.3d 768, 770 n.1 (9th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 897…