UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ISMAEL VALDEZ, FN2300108, Case No. 23-cv-03967-CRB (PR)
Petitioner, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR
A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND
v. DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF
APPEALABILITY
JUSTIN MATTKE, Sergeant, (ECF No. 3) Respondent.
I. Petitioner, a pretrial detainee at the Monterey County Jail on charges of criminal threats and vandalism having “nothing to do with this petition,” filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging that in 2018 he was stopped and harassed by Greenfield Police Department Sergeant Justin Mattke on various occasions, including for exercising “on the wrong side of town.” ECF No. 1 (Pet.) at 2, 3. Petitioner seeks to have Mattke “placed on administrative leave,” id. at 4, and an injunction preventing Mattke from “harasing me upon my release nor him harasing my family,” ECF No. 6 (Letter) at 3 (sic in original). Petitioner also seeks leave…