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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

DWAYNE CONYERS,

Petitioner,

v.

JOSIE GASTILLO, Warden, et al.,

Respondents.

Case No.: 19cv1504 MMA (MDD)

ORDER: (1) DIRECTING CLERK 

OF COURT TO FILE PETITION IN 

THIS CASE [ECF No. 1] AS A 

MOTION TO AMEND AND 

AMENDED PETITION IN CASE NO. 

18cv0085 JLS (KSC); and (2) 

DENYING MOTION TO PROCEED 

IN FORMA PAUPERIS [ECF No. 2] 

AS MOOT

On January 12, 2018, Petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in this 

Court which contained three claims and which was given case no. 18cv0085 JLS (KSC). 

See Conyers v. Gastelo, S.D. Cal. case no. 18cv0085 JLS (KSC). The Court later granted 

Petitioner’s request for stay and abeyance in case no. 18cv0085 JLS (KSC) to permit 

Petitioner to return to state court to exhaust an additional claim. Id., ECF No. 18. 

Petitioner was directed to file a motion to amend his petition and a fully exhausted 

amended petition in case no. 18cv0085 JLS (KSC) once he had exhausted his new claim. 

Id.

On August 9, 2019, Petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in this case. 

The Petition attacks the same conviction and contains the same three claims as the 

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petition in case no. 18cv0085 JLS (KSC) as well as the fourth claim Petitioner sought to 

exhaust in that case. See ECF No. 1. The Petition filed in this case appears to be 

Petitioner’s attempt to file a motion to amend and an amended petition in case no. 

18cv0085 JLS (KSC). Accordingly, the Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to file the petition 

in this case [ECF No. 1] as a motion to amend and amended petition in case no. 

18cv0085 JLS (KSC). See Woods v. Carey, 525 F.3d 886, 890 (9th Cir 2008) (stating 

that when a pro se petitioner has a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition pending in a district court 

and files a new 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, “the district court should . . . construe[ a] pro 

se habeas petition as a motion to amend his pending habeas petition.”)

For the foregoing reasons, the motion to proceed in forma pauperis [ECF No. 2] is 

DENIED as moot. The Clerk of Court is directed to close this case.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 16, 2019

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