Pfeiffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER FRANKLIN, No. 2:23-cv-1039 KJN P Petitioner, v. ORDER C. PFEIFFER, Warden,1 Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. However, petitioner did not file his in forma pauperis affidavit on the Court’s form. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a); 1915(a). Therefore, petitioner is provided the opportunity to submit the appropriate affidavit in support of a request to proceed in forma pauperis.2 ////

The current warden of Kern Valley State Prison is C. Pfeiffer, who is substituted as respondent in this matter. Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d); see Brittingham v. United States, 982 F.2d 378, 379 (9th 25 Cir. 1992).

26 Petitioner asks the court to use the in forma pauperis application he submitted in an earlier case, and he believes that once he is granted in forma pauperis status in one case he need not apply again. Petitioner is…