(HC) Watkins v. 3rd District Appellate Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RICHARD HOWARD WATKINS, No. 2:22-cv-1575 DB P Petitioner, v. ORDER 3RD DISTRICT APPELLATE COURT, Respondent. 16 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner challenges his 2019 Sacramento County Superior Court judgment and sentence. Presently before the court is petitioner’s motion for review and request for copies. (ECF No. 6.) I. Background Petitioner initiated this action by filing the petition on September 1, 2022. Four days after the petition was filed on the docket, petitioner filed a notice of errata. (ECF No. 3.) The notice stated that petitioner made a mistake in sending the petition and that the petition should have been sent to the Third District Court of Appeals. (Id.) Petitioner also indicated on the first 26 1 Under the prison mailbox rule, a document is deemed served or filed on the date a prisoner signs 27 …