Geray

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JASON GERAY, Case No. 20-cv-05383-VC (PR)

Petitioner,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS; DENYING CERTIFICATE

OF APPEALABILITY

JENNIFER SHAFFER,

Re: Dkt. No. 9 Respondent.

Jason Geray, a state prisoner, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the denial of parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings (“Board”). The respondent moves to dismiss the petition. For the following reasons, the motion is granted. In his petition, Geray asserts, “the California Board of Parole violated due process by denying me for the same reason two years in a row,” and “the Parole Board also noted I need more rehabilitation efforts, [but] due to the Covid-19 there is zero rehabilitation being offered.” Although Geray does not attach the transcript of the Board’s reasons for its denial of his parole, he attaches the Superior Court’s denial of his petition, which said that the Board denied him parole because: “[his] crime did involve a great deal of violence, he had a previous record of serious criminality, and . . . both his record…