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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

JOSE DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ,

Petitioner,

vs.

BILL LOCKYER, Attorney General of the

State of California,

Respondent.

No. 2:05-cv-01558-JKS-DAD

ORDER DENYING

CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

At Docket No. 46 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has timely filed a Notice

of Appeal from the judgment entered herein on March 8, 2007.

Before Petitioner can appeal this decision, a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) must

issue. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c); Fed. R. App. P. 22(b). A COA should be granted when “reasonable

jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been

resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to deserve

encouragement to proceed further.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) (internal

quotation marks and citations omitted)). In this case, no reasonable jurist could find that this

Court had jurisdiction or that the petition filed was not barred by the statute of limitations. For

this reason, the Court declines to issue a Certificate of Appealability; any further request for a

Certificate of Appealability must be addressed to the Court of Appeals. See Fed. R. App. P.

22(b); Ninth Circuit R. 22-1.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 16, 2008

s/ James K. Singleton, Jr.

JAMES K. SINGLETON, JR.

United States District Judge

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