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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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Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAMON L. JONES,

Petitioner,

v.

DAVE DAVEY, Warden,

Respondent.

Case No. 15-cv-01560-HSG (PR) 

ORDER ADDRESSING PETITIONER’S 

JULY 25, 2016 IN FORMA PAUPERIS 

APPLICATION

Re: Dkt. No. 14

On April 6, 2015, petitioner Damon L. Jones, an inmate at Corcoran State Prison, filed a 

petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On August 12, 2015, the Court 

issued an Order on Initial Review in which it found that Jones had filed a mixed petition 

containing exhausted and unexhausted claims. In the Order, the Court explained to Jones that a 

federal court must dismiss a mixed petition and provided him with an opportunity to amend the 

petition by withdrawing the unexhausted claims and proceeding only on the exhausted claims, or 

to dismiss the mixed petition and return to federal court with a new petition once all claims were 

exhausted. The Court also explained that Jones could seek a stay of the petition while he was 

exhausting his claims in state court. 

On October 1, 2015, the Court denied Jones’s motion for a stay and gave him an 

opportunity to decide whether he wanted to dismiss the unexhausted claims and go forward with 

only the exhausted ones or dismiss the entire action and return to state court to exhaust all his 

claims before filing a new federal petition. Jones then elected the second option offered him, i.e., 

that he would dismiss this action and return to state court to exhaust all claims before filing a new 

federal petition presenting all of his claims. See Dkt. No. 10. The action was thereafter dismissed

without prejudice to Jones filing a new federal petition after exhausting state court remedies for all 

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the claims in that new petition. 

On July 25, 2016, petitioner filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) bearing 

the caption and case number of this action. See Dkt. No. 14. Petitioner also identified case 

numbers in the California Superior Court and California Supreme Court. This Court understands 

petitioner to be reporting that state court remedies have now been exhausted and he wishes to 

proceed with his federal petition. 

If this is correct, petitioner cannot re-file his petition in this action but must instead file a 

new petition. Accordingly, if petitioner wishes to re-file his petition after now having exhausted 

state court remedies, he may do so by filing a new habeas petition and a new IFP application. He 

should leave the case number blank, so that the Clerk can assign a new case number when the 

action is filed.

The Clerk shall terminate Docket No. 14 and send petitioner the Court’s habeas petition 

and prisoner IFP forms. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

8/1/2016

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