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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 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WILLIAM VINCENT ROMERO, 

Plaintiff,

v. 

DANIEL PARAMO, 

Defendant.

 Case No.: 14cv1284-GPC(BLM) 

ORDER DENYING PETITIONER'S 

REQUEST AS PREMATURE 

ECF No. 47 

 On August 5, 2015, the Court issued an Order denying Petitioner’s Motion for Stay and 

Abeyance pursuant to Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), granting Petitioner’s Motion to 

Stay pursuant to Kelly v. Small, 315 F.3d 1063 (9th Cir. 2003), denying Petitioner’s Motion to 

Amend Petition as premature, and ordering Petitioner to “move to amend his Petition within 

thirty (30) days of the state court’s resolution of his state habeas petition.” ECF No. 45 

(emphasis in original). 

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 On August 12, 2015, Petitioner filed a status update with the Court which was accepted 

on discrepancy on August 24, 2015. See ECF Nos. 46-47. In the status update, Petitioner 

provides the Court with an explanation of the progress of his state court habeas cases and 

efforts to exhaust his federal claims. ECF No. 47. In addition, Petitioner requests additional 

time to file his new claims once they are exhausted. Id. at 3. In support, Petitioner states that 

the additional time is necessary because he has not been able to fully exhaust his claims in the 

California Supreme Court since he is waiting for a decision from the Court of Appeal, Fourth 

Appellate District. Id. at 4. In further support, Petitioner argues that he will be transferred from 

the county jail to a “Reception Facility up North and to a [sic] eventual transfer back to RJ 

Donovan,” and that it will take additional time for his property – which he needs in order to file 

his amended federal petition - to be sent to him once the transfers begin. Id. 

 Petitioner’s motion is DENIED AS PREMATURE. As of now there is not a date specific 

deadline set for Petitioner to file his amended federal petition. According to the Court’s August 

5, 2015 order, Petitioner has thirty (30) days after his state court claims are resolved to file an 

amended federal petition. See ECF No. 45 at 10. Therefore, the fact that Petitioner is awaiting 

a decision from the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District does not mean that Petitioner is 

running out of time to file his amended federal petition. On the contrary, Petitioner’s thirty-day 

time period will not begin to run until the state court has resolved his state habeas petition. In 

addition, thirty-days after the resolution of Petitioner’s state court claims is a reasonable amount 

of time in which to file his amended federal petition. Finally, Petitioner’s claims about 

transferring facilities and being separated from his legal property, and therefore unable to meet 

the Court’s deadline, are speculative at this point in time. We do not know when Petitioner will 

be transferred and whether Petitioner will be separated from his materials at the time the state 

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court resolves Petitioner’s state habeas petition. If, however, Petitioner’s state court claims are 

exhausted and he finds himself separated from his legal property and unable to meet the Court’s 

thirty-day deadline, Petitioner may file a new motion to continue the deadline at that time. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 9/2/2015 

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