Covello

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES DENERICK NELSON, JR., No. 2:23-cv-1438 KJN P Petitioner, v. ORDER PATRICK COVELLO, Respondent. 16 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Along with his petition, petitioner filed a motion to expand the record, and subsequently filed a motion for appointment of counsel. Motion to Expand Petitioner’s motion to expand the record is not signed by petitioner. Parties proceeding without counsel are required to sign all pleadings, motions, and other papers submitted to the court for filing. Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(a). Further, it is unclear petitioner wishes to expand the record. Rather, petitioner asks to add additional grounds by expanding the record if the petition is not dismissed so that his other grounds may be admitted. (ECF No. 3.) But Rule 7 regarding expansion of the record concerns factual evidence, not claims (or grounds) raised in the…