Peter Bergne v. Ronald Davis
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 PETER M. BERGNE, Case No. 19-cv-08315-JD
Petitioner,
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
v.
RONALD DAVIS, Respondent.
Petitioner, a California prisoner, proceeds with pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging a 2017 parole denial by the Board of Parole Hearings (“BPH”). The original petition was dismissed with leave to amend and petitioner has filed an amended petition. BACKGROUND In 1990 petitioner was sentenced to an indeterminate term of fifteen years to life in state prison with the possibility of parole. Docket No. 1 at 2. Parole has been denied on several occasions, the most recent in 2017. Id. at 21. DISCUSSION
STANDARD OF REVIEW
21 This court may consider a petition for writ of habeas corpus “in behalf of a person in 22 custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in custody in 23 violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the…