Dawson
Dawson v. State of California
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KENNETH DEAN DAWSON, Case No. 19-cv-05494-PJH
Petitioner,
ORDER DISMISSING MOTION TO
v. STAY WITH LEAVE TO AMEND
THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA, Re: Dkt. No. 25 Respondent.
12 Petitioner, a California prisoner, proceeds with a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petition was dismissed with leave to amend. Petitioner has not filed an amended petition but did file a motion for a stay. BACKGROUND Petitioner was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to three counts of second-degree robbery. People v. Dawson, No. H041904, 2016 WL 758786, at *1 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 26, 2016). The California Court of Appeal affirmed his conviction on February 26, 2016. Id. This court can find no record of a petition for review with the California Supreme Court immediately following the affirmance by the California Court of Appeal. In 2019 petitioner filed habeas petitions with…