Morales

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ERNESTO VEGA MORALES, Case No. 3:20-cv-02949-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER DISMISSING CASE FOR

v. FAILURE TO PROSECUTE

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF Re: Dkt. No. 27 CALIFORNIA, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Ernesto Vega Morales filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 29, 2020. After some procedural back and forth, the case was reassigned to me and the government filed a response on June 28, 2022. Dkt. No. 19. The traverse was originally due on August 8, 2022. See id. But on August 3, Morales’s attorney filed a motion to withdraw and to extend time to file a traverse, citing Morales’s decision to terminate his services in December 2021. Dkt. No. 20. I extended the deadline for the traverse to September 19, 2022. Dkt. No. 22. I began a hearing on the motion to withdraw on September 16, 2022, but rescheduled it to September 28, 2022, so that an interpreter could be present for Morales. See Dkt. Nos. 24, 25, 26. At the…