Ruiz
Ruiz v. Hatton
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 MATTHEW RUIZ, Case No. 17-cv-06706-EMC
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR
9 v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
10 SHAWN HATTON, Docket No. 1 11 Defendant.
12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION 15 Matthew Ruiz (“Mr. Ruiz”) is currently serving an 80-years-to-life sentence in 16 Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California. He filed this action for a writ of habeas 17 corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2254. Mr. Ruiz’s petition is now before the Court for review 18 on the merits. For the reasons discussed below, the Court DENIES the petition. 19 II. BACKGROUND 20 A jury found Mr. Ruiz guilty of two counts of first-degree murder with special 21 circumstances of lying in wait while committing the murders for the benefit of a criminal street 22 gang, two counts of premeditated attempted first-degree murder, and found several associated 23 firearm and gang enhancement allegations true. The…