Howard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JUSTIN HOWARD, Case No. 20-cv-01681-HSG

Petitioner, ORDER OF DISMISSAL v.

M. ATCHLEY, Respondent.

12 On February 26, 2020,1 petitioner filed with the Court a request that his federal petition be held in abeyance until he exhausted his ineffective assistance of counsel claim in state court. Dkt. No. 1. However, petitioner did not attach a habeas petition to his request and there is no record of any habeas petition filed by petitioner in the Northern District of California. On March 9, 2020, the day the request was docketed in this Court and this action opened, the Court informed petitioner that this action was deficient because he had not submitted a petition on the proper form and had not paid the filing fee or submitted an in forma pauperis application. Dkt. Nos. 3, 4, 7. Petitioner was instructed to file, within twenty-eight days of the date of the order, a completed petition on the proper form and either pay the filing fee or…