Spearman

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ANTHONY SMITH, Case No. 20-cv-00322-SI

8 Petitioner,

ORDER ON INITIAL REVIEW

9 v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 4, 5 10 SPEARMAN, 11 Respondent.

12 13 BACKGROUND 14 Anthony Smith, an inmate at High Desert State Prison, filed this pro se action seeking a writ 15 of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. His petition is now before the court for review 16 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2243 and Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United 17 States District Courts. 18 19 BACKGROUND 20 More than a decade ago, Anthony Smith was convicted of two burglaries in two different 21 cases and received approximately the same sentence in both cases. The present petition pertains to 22 only one of those cases, but both cases are mentioned to avoid confusion and to get the parties and 23 the court to focus on just the one case at issue here. 24 The 2007 Conviction: Smith was convicted in 2007 in Alameda County Superior Court…