Martin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 O.Z. MARTIN, Case No. 20-cv-01133-EMC

Petitioner,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. Docket No. 1 SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.

12 13 O.Z. Martin has filed a “petition for writ of mandate” in which he complains that the California Supreme Court refused “to do justice in performing its ministerial duties” by failing to conduct a proper and adequate inquiry into his claims. Docket No. 1 at 1, 2. He seeks a writ commanding the California Supreme Court to entertain his claims about the lawfulness of his 2000 conviction from the Alameda County Superior Court and the resulting sentence that was enhanced due to prior convictions upon guilty pleas in 1982 and 1994. The federal mandamus statute provides: “The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.” 28 U.S.C. § 1361. The federal 23 …