Valdovinos

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 FELIX VALDOVINOS, Case No. 23-cv-05351-JD

8 Petitioner,

ORDER RE DISMISSAL

v. 9

10 JEFF MACOMBER, Respondent. 11

12 13 Felix Valdovinos, a state prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus 14 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The original petition was dismissed with leave to amend, and 15 petitioner has filed an amended petition. 16 BACKGROUND 17 Petitioner was found guilty of first-degree murder in 1999. Petition at 1-2. In 2023, he 18 filed a motion in the Santa Clara County Superior Court for resentencing and to invalidate certain 19 restitution fines because of several new state laws. Id. at 10. The petition was denied for failure to 20 state a prima facie case for relief, except a restitution fee of $140.50 was vacated and an amended 21 abstract of judgment was issued. Id. at 12. The superior court noted that petitioner argued that he 22 was entitled to resentencing without providing any specific facts or law to support his assertion. 23 Id. at…