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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

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT J. ALEXANDER,

Plaintiff,

v.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY SUPERIOR 

COURT, DEPT #38,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-04338-KAW (PR)

ORDER DISMISSING PETITION 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Petitioner Robert J. Alexander, incarcerated at the Santa Clara County Jail, filed this pro se

petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 asserting that he was not given a 

fast and speedy trial or a preliminary hearing in ten calendar days. In its February 3, 2016 Order, 

the Court noted that Petitioner appeared to be a pre-trial detainee awaiting trial and that principles 

of federalism and comity required the Court to abstain from exercising jurisdiction over his 

petition until all state criminal proceedings were completed and all state judicial remedies were

exhausted, unless special circumstances warranted federal intervention prior to this time. Instead 

of dismissing the action, the Court granted Petitioner an opportunity to demonstrate that 

extraordinary circumstances existed that would warrant this Court’s jurisdiction over his speedy 

trial claim. The Court allowed Petitioner twenty-one days from the date of the Oder to show cause 

why the Court should not abstain and why the petition should not be dismissed without prejudice. 

The Court warned Petitioner that if he failed to file a response within twenty-one days, the petition 

would be dismissed. 

More than twenty-one days have passed and Petitioner has not filed any document 

responding to the Order to Show Cause. Therefore, this petition is dismissed without prejudice. 

Petitioner may re-file it after his criminal proceedings have ended and he has exhausted all state 

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court judicial proceedings. 

The Clerk shall enter a separate judgment and close the file. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 4, 2016

KANDIS A. WESTMORE

United States Magistrate Judge

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