Henry C. Navarro v. Connie Gipson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EASTERN DIVISION 11 HENRY C. NAVARRO, ) No. ED CV 21-1529-SB (PLA) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: DISMISSAL ) OF HABEAS PETITION ) CONNIE GIPSON, Secretary, CDCR, ) ) Respondent. ) ) I BACKGROUND Henry C. Navarro (“petitioner”) initiated this action on September 7, 2021, by filing a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”), along with a Memorandum in Support of Habeas Petition (“Memorandum”) (ECF Nos. 1, 2). Petitioner was convicted in 1998 of petty theft with a prior (Cal. Penal Code § 666). After determining that petitioner had six prior serious or violent felony convictions, the trial court sentenced him under California’s Three Strikes law to twenty-five years to life…