Price

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CURTIS FLOYD PRICE, Case No. 5:93-cv-0277-EJD Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE V. RONALD DAVIS, Warden of California ORDER MISSING PETITION DUE State Prison at San Quentin, TO PETITIONER'S DEATH

Respondent. L Counsel for Petitioner has filed a Notice stating that Petitioner died on August 17, 2021. See Dkt. No. 287. The death of a habeas corpus petitioner renders the petition moot. See, e.g., Garceau is || Woodford, 399 F.3d 1101 (Mem.) (9th Cir. Mar. 3, 2005) (citing Griffey v. Lindsey, 349 F.3d 1157 (9th Cir. 2003) (“Because petitioner’s death renders this case moot, the petition for a writ of habeas corpus should be dismissed as moot.”). See also Farmer v. McDaniel, 692 F.3d 1052 (Mem.) (9th Cir. 2012) (denying petition for rehearing en banc, dismissing appeal, and remanding to the district court for dismissal of the habeas petition as moot due to petitioner’s death during appellate proceedings). Accordingly,…