(PS) Crocker v. El Dorado County Superior Court
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BENJAMIN DAVID CROCKER, Case No. 2:22-cv-00499-DAD-JDP (PS) Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
EL DORADO COUNTY SUPERIOR
COURT, SOUTH LAKE TAHOE
DIVISION, et al., Defendants. 17 This case was opened when plaintiff filed a document styled as an application for removal of a criminal case from the El Dorado County Superior Court. ECF No. 1. Therein, plaintiff alleges that his civil rights were violated both when he was arrested in December 2021 and during criminal proceedings that followed. I construe plaintiff’s filing as a complaint and recommend that it be dismissed under the Younger abstention doctrine. I also recommend that plaintiff’s 23 1 Plaintiff asks that his state criminal case be removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1455. ECF No. 1 at 2. His filing, however, neither contains a short and plain statement of the grounds for removal nor does it appear to include a copy of all pleadings and orders from the…