Churich

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT CHURICH, Case No. 21-cv-00920-VC (PR)

Petitioner, ORDER OF DISMISSAL OF SECOND

OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION;

v. DENYING CERTIFICATE OF

APPEALABILITY

THE PEOPLE,

Respondent.

Robert Churich, a state inmate at the California Men’s Colony, files a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging a state conviction from the Sonoma County Superior Court, case number SCR-671648. This is Churich’s second petition challenging this conviction. On May 18, 2018, Churich filed the first petition challenging the same conviction. See Churich v. Hatton, Case No. 18-2843 VC. In the 2018 case, the court issued an order granting the motion to dismiss and denying a certificate of appealability. See ECF No. 62. Judgment was entered the same day. See ECF No. 63. Subsequently, Churich filed many letters which the court construed to be motions to alter or amend the judgment, which the court denied on July 24, 2020. See ECF No. 77. A successive petition may not be filed in this court unless Churich first obtains from the United States Court of Appeals…