Womack
Womack v. Newsom
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RODNEY JEROME WOMACK, Case No. 21-cv-00711-SI
Plaintiff,
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
v. Re: Dkt. No. 1 GAVIN NEWSOM, Defendant.
12 Rodney Womack, an inmate at the Corcoran State Prison, filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 relating to a state court conviction and sentence. His complaint is now before the court for review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 16 BACKGROUND In 1982, Womack was convicted in Alameda County Superior Court of two counts of robbery and was sentenced to a three-year prison term. In 2005, Womack was convicted in Contra Costa County Superior Court of robbery and was found to have suffered the 1982 conviction. He was sentenced under the Three Strikes Law to 35 years to life in prison for the 2005 conviction based in part on having suffered the 1982 conviction. Womack’s 2005 conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Thereafter, he filed several federal court cases attempting to…