UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 CHRISTOPHER MANCINAS, Case No. 18-cv-06235-YGR (PR)
Petitioner, ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS; AND
v. DENYING CERTIFICATE OF
APPEALABILITY
MARCUS POLLARD, Acting Warden,1 Respondent.
I. INTRODUCTION Petitioner Christopher Mancinas, a state prisoner, is currently incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, pursuant to his judgments in three cases, People v. Christopher Mancinas, Sonoma County Superior Court Case Nos. SCR498868, SCR590577, and SCR595589. On April 16, 2012, in Case No. SCR595589, a Sonoma County jury convicted Petitioner of active participation in a criminal street gang (count four), which was in connection with the gang-related death of a non-gang member named Dewey Tucker,2 with one strike prior conviction, one prior serious felony conviction, and two prior prison terms. See People v. Mancinas, No. A141759, 2017 WL 1422589, at *1-2 (Cal. Ct. App. Apr. 21, 2017, as…