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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

SONNARY TINA CHHIM, Civil

No.

13-1050 GPC (JMA)

Petitioner,

ORDER: 

(1) DISMISSING THIS CASE

WITHOUT PREJUDICE AND

WITHOUT LEAVE TO AMEND;

and

(2) DENYING APPLICATION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

AS MOOT

v.

DEBRA JOHNSON, Warden,

Respondent.

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, submitted a Petition for Writ of

Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, together with a request to proceed in forma

pauperis in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on April

2, 2013. On April 30, 2013, the case was transferred to this Court. (ECF No. 6.)

In the present case, Petitioner seeks to challenge her January 21, 2010, conviction

in San Diego Superior Court case number SCD210509 on four grounds. (See ECF No.

1.) Petitioner also filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in this Court on April 22,

2013, challenging the same conviction on the same four grounds and five additional

grounds. (See So. Dist. Cal. Civil Case No. 13cv0961 LAB (KSC), ECF No. 1.) In

13cv0961 LAB (KSC), the Court dismissed the case without prejudice and with leave

to amend on April 25, 2013, because Petitioner had failed to satisfy the filing fee

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requirement and had failed to allege exhaustion of her state court remedies with regard

to all claims in the petition. (See Order dated Apr. 25, 2013, in So. Dist. Cal. Civil Case

No. 13cv0961 LAB (KSC), ECF No. 2.) In case number 13cv0961 LAB (KSC),

Petitioner was given until June 24, 2013, to either pay the $5.00 filing fee or submit

adequate proof of her inability to pay the fee, and to choose one of the four options

outlined in that Order. (See ECF No. 2 in case no. 13cv0961 LAB (KSC).) On June 11,

2013, Petitioner paid the $5.00 filing fee, and on August 8, 2013, the Court granted

Petitioner an extension of time to respond to the options order. (See ECF Nos.3-4 in case

no. 13cv0961 LAB (KSC).) Petitioner’s response is due August 28, 2013. (Id.) 

Because Petitioner already has a pending case in this Court which seeks to

challenge her January 21, 2010, conviction in San Diego Superior Court case number

SCD210509, the Court DISMISSES this case without prejudice to Petitioner pursuing

her claims in 13cv0961 LAB (KSC). Petitioner is advised that if she wishes to challenge

her conviction on grounds additional to the ones already raised in the petition filed

in13cv0961 LAB (KSC), she must file an amended petition in that case. The Clerk shall

close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: August 8, 2013

HON. GONZALO P. CURIEL

United States District Judge

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