Pratt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RYANT TRIMALE PRATT, Case No. 21-cv-01907-VC (PR)

Petitioner, ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITH

PREJUDICE

v. Re: Dkt. No.

CDCR; BOARD OF PAROLE

HEARINGS,

Respondents.

Petitioner Ryant Trimale Pratt files a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging the decision of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Board of Parole Hearings (“Board”) not to grant him parole. Pratt also moves for leave to proceed in forma pauperis, which is granted. For the following reasons, the petition is dismissed with prejudice. The petition alleges the following: Pratt was convicted of first-degree murder in 1997 in Los Angeles County and was sentenced to 90 years to life with the possibility of parole. He has been in custody since his arrest in 1994. Pratt includes a printout of Proposition 7, which was passed by California voters in 1978. ECF No. 1 at 10; See also UC Hastings Scholarship Repository, https://repository.uchastings.edu//cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1843&context=ca_ballot_props (last visited April 29, 2021). Among other things, this…