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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANTHONY JAMES GIBBS,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-03-1855 LKK PAN P

vs.

D. L. RUNNELS, Warden, et al.,

Respondents. ORDER

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Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with an application for a writ of

habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition, petitioner claims, inter alia, that he

received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel failed to move

for a new trial. In the answer filed March 4, 2004, respondents contend that the claim is

unexhausted and without merit. (Answer to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed March 4,

2004, at 27-28.) On January 6, 2005, petitioner filed a document styled as a request to amend his

petition. Although it is not entirely clear, it appears that by said document petitioner seeks to

refute respondents’ contention that this aspect of petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel

claim is unexhausted with evidence that he exhausted the claim in a petition for review to the

California Supreme Court, No. S128394, that was denied by order filed December 1, 2004. 

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Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that respondents are granted

fifteen days from the date of this order to respond to petitioner’s contention that he has exhausted

his claim that his counsel was ineffective in failing to move for a new trial. 

DATED: June 5, 2006.

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