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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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For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PHILLIP J. GREENE,

Petitioner,

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TOM L. CAREY,

Respondent. ______________________________

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No. C 06-5551 MMC (PR)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

(Docket No. 4)

On September 11, 2006, petitioner, a California prisoner proceeding pro se, filed the

above-titled petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging a

conviction obtained in Santa Clara County Superior Court in 2003. Prior to filing the instant

petition, petitioner filed another petition in this district challenging the same conviction. See

Greene v. Evans, No. 05-3433 MMC (PR). That petition is currently stayed at petitioner’s

request pending his exhaustion of unexhausted claims contained therein. 

 A second or successive petition may not be filed in the district court unless the

petitioner first obtains from the appropriate United States Court of Appeals an order

authorizing the district court to consider such petition. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). Here,

petitioner has neither sought nor obtained such an order from the United States Court of

Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Accordingly, the instant petition is hereby DISMISSED.

To the extent petitioner wishes to pursue his now-exhausted claims, he must do so in

his earlier-filed case, not by filing a new petition in a new case. Specifically, petitioner must

file, in his earlier case, a request to lift the stay, and must clearly set forth in the caption of

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said request the number of that earlier case, No. C 05-3433 MMC (PR). Additionally, if

petitioner wishes to amend the claims set forth in his earlier petition, he must do so by filing

an amended petition in that case. Such amended petition must include the caption and civil

case number No. C 05-3433 MMC (PR) and must include the words AMENDED PETITION

on the first page. Petitioner is cautioned that the Amended Petition supersedes the initial

petition and may not incorporate any part of it by reference. Petitioner must include in

the Amended Petition all the claims he wishes to present, and any attachments he

wishes the Court to consider.

In light of petitioner’s payment of the filing fee, the application to proceed in forma

pauperis is hereby DENIED as moot.

This order terminates Docket No. 4.

The Clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 3, 2007 _________________________ MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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