Rodriguez

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

ORLANDO J. RODRIGUEZ,

11 Case No. 19-03333 BLF (PR) Petitioner, 12 ORDER OF DISMISSAL; DENYING v. CERTIFICATE OF 13 APPEALABILITY 14 R. NEUSCHMID, 15 Respondent. 16 17 18 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a petition for a writ of habeas 19 corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging the denial of early parole consideration 20 under California’s Proposition 57.1 Petitioner has paid the filing fee. (Docket No. 12.) 21 22 I. DISCUSSION 23 I. Standard of Review 24 This court may entertain a petition for a writ of habeas corpus “in behalf of a person 25 in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in 26 custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. 27 1 § 2254(a). 2 It shall “award the writ or issue an order directing the respondent to show cause…