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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PEDRO DEROBLES, )

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Petitioner, )

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DENNIS SMITH, et al., )

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Respondents. )

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1:07-cv-00177-AWI-TAG HC

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

SUPPLEMENT PETITION (Doc. 4)

Petitioner is a federal prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. 

On February 1, 2007, Petitioner filed the instant petition. On April 26, 2007, Petitioner filed

a motion to amend and supplemental pleadings. (Doc. 4). In that motion, Petitioner attaches various

documents he wishes to have supplement the petition. Although the Court has already ordered

Respondent to file an answer on January 8, 2008 (Doc. 5), the Court sees no impediment to granting

Petitioner’s request to include these additional documents in the petition.

Petitioner, however, then asks leave to file an amended and supplemental pleading “setting

forth transactions or occurrences or events which have happened since the date of the pleading

sought to be supplemented.” (Doc. 4, p. 3). Immediately thereafter, Petitioner requests that “this

Court permit this supplemental pleading, with the attached new exhibit’s, for determination” of his

petition. (Id.)(Emphasis supplied). The two sentences are almost directly contradictory. In the first,

Petitioners asks leave to file a new and amended pleading, presumably at some future date. In the

second, he implies that the amendments and supplements he is seeking are already contained in the

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motion filed on April 26, 2007. The Court will therefore construe the motion as a simple request to

include in the petition the documents and allegations contained in the motion itself. If Petitioner is

indeed seeking to file a new and amended petition at some future date, he must present that request

in a subsequent motion to amend.

Accordingly, the Court HEREBY ORDERS that Petitioner’s motion to amend and

supplement the petition dated April 26, 2007 (Doc. 4) is GRANTED. The documents and

allegations contained in the April 26, 2007 motion are considered to supplement the petition filed on

February 1, 2007. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 13, 2008 /s/ Theresa A. Goldner 

j6eb3d UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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