UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ISMAEL VALDEZ, FN2300108, Case No. 23-cv-04406-CRB (PR)
Petitioner, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR
A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND
v. DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF
APPEALABILITY
TINA NIETO, Monterey County Sheriff, (ECF No. 3) Respondent.
I. Petitioner, a pretrial detainee at the Monterey County Jail facing charges of criminal threats and vandalism,1 has filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging a 2018 conviction from Monterey County Superior Court for “assault n battery” on police officers in the city of Greenfield, California. ECF No. 1 (Pet.) at 2 (sic in original). Petitioner was sentenced to “240 days” on the assault and battery conviction and released some time in “2018.” Id. He seeks federal habeas review of the 2018 conviction and leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. Based solely on petitioner’s affidavit of…