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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MANUEL TRUJILLO, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

M. SPEARMAN, 

Respondent. 

No. 2:15-cv-0272 GGH P 

ORDER 

 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of habeas 

corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and has paid the filing fee. Petitioner has consented to a 

Magistrate Judge in this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). 

 The court’s records reveal that petitioner has previously filed an application for a writ of 

habeas corpus attacking the conviction and sentence challenged in this case. The previous 

application was filed on November 7, 2005, and was denied on the merits on March 19, 2007.1

 

See Trujillo v. Scribner, No. 2:05-cv-2251 JKS KJM.2 The current petition represents a 

successive challenge to the same 2000 conviction at issue in petitioner’s prior petition. Before 

 

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 The previous petition was dismissed as time barred which is a decision on the merits. See 

McNabb v. Yates, 576 F.3d 1028, 1029-30 (9th Cir. 2009). 

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 Previous to the 2005 petition, petitioner had filed an application in 2003 concerning the same 

conviction, which was dismissed as unexhausted on March 21, 2005. See Trujillo v. Alameda, 

No. 2:03-cv-2625 GEB KJM. 

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petitioner can proceed with the instant application, he must move in the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an order authorizing the district court to consider the 

application. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3). Therefore, petitioner’s application must be dismissed 

without prejudice to its refiling upon obtaining authorization from the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

 Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that this action is dismissed without prejudice. 

Dated: February 20, 2015 

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

 

GGH:076/Truj0272.success 

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