Glen D. Collins v. Los Angeles Superior Court

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GLEN D. COLLINS, ) Case No. CV 20-4784-GW (JPR) 11 ) Petitioner, ) 12 ) ORDER DISMISSING HABEAS PETITION v. ) FOR FAILURE TO PROSECUTE 13 )

LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT )

14 et al., ) ) 15 Respondents. ) 16 17 On May 28, 2020, Petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of 18 Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody, claiming that he was 19 being held in a Los Angeles County jail beyond the expiration of 20 his sentence. (Pet. at 5.) Respondents answered on July 20, 21 2020, disputing that Petitioner’s sentence had already expired 22 and stating that he was due to be released in April 2021 (Answer, 23 Mem. P. & A. at 3); on August 26, they filed a Supplemental 24 Answer, contending that the Petition was now moot because 25 Petitioner had been released from jail early, on July 29, in 26 response to the pandemic (Suppl. Answer, Mem. P. & A. at 1-2). 27 On August 27, 2020, the Magistrate Judge ordered Petitioner 28 1 1 to respond to the mootness claim, warning him that “his Petition 2 will likely be dismissed” if he…