Estrada

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 ROBERT REGINALD ESTRADA, DNY775, Case No. 20-cv-04096-CRB (PR) Petitioner, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS (ECF No. 2) SANTA CLARA COUNTY JAIL, et al., Respondent. Petitioner, a pretrial detainee facing state criminal charges in Santa Clara County Superior Court, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the proceedings against him. He 12 || also moves to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 2) which, good cause appearing, is granted. Petitioner may challenge his pretrial detention on state criminal charges by way of a S 14 || petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. But principles of comity and || federalism require that this court abstain and not entertain any such pre-sentence habeas challenge z unless petitioner shows that: (1) he has exhausted available state judicial remedies, and (2) “special circumstances”…