Ontiveros

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALBERT A. ONTIVEROS, Case No. 19-cv-05662-EMC

Petitioner,

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR

v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

RALPH DIAZ, Respondent.

12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Albert Ontiveros filed this pro se action for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to challenge a time-credit decision in prison. For the reasons explained below, the petition will be denied. II. BACKGROUND The petition in this action presents an unusual claim. In a nutshell, Mr. Ontiveros was found guilty of a disciplinary offense in 2011 and received discipline that included a loss of time credits. Mr. Ontiveros does not challenge the disciplinary decision and instead claims that his constitutional rights were violated because prison officials delayed six years before entering the loss of time credits into his prison records. Mr. Ontiveros is serving a sentence of 13 years, eight…