Warden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JAMES ROLAND HENDERSON, BH2947, Case No. 21-cv-03799-SK (PR)

Petitioner,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

JEFF LYNCH, Acting Warden, (ECF Nos. 2 & 4) Respondent.

Petitioner, a state prisoner incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC), has filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging a conviction and sentence from Santa Cruz County Superior Court. He also seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The petition is properly before the undersigned for initial review because Petitioner has consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). BACKGROUND Petitioner was convicted by a jury of two counts of first-degree murder and found true the special circumstance that Petitioner committed multiple murders. At the conclusion of a sanity trial, the jury determined that Petitioner was same when he committed the…