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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

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HERBERT ALEXANDER,

Petitioner,

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JOHN W. HAVILAND, Warden, 

Respondent.

 

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No. C 09-04773 JF (PR)

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS

(Docket Nos. 6 & 7)

Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Respondent filed a motion to dismiss the petition as

second or successive. (Docket No. 6.) Petitioner filed a motion to withdraw the

petition, to allow him to seek leave from the Ninth Circuit to file a second or

successive petition. (Docket No. 7.)

It is undisputed that Petitioner previously filed a petition for a writ of habeas

corpus which was denied on the merits on August 6, 1996. See C-94-2535 MMC

(OEW); (Resp’t Mot. at 1). The instant petition is therefore the second filed by

Petitioner challenging the same conviction and sentence. A district court must

dismiss claims presented in a second or successive habeas petition challenging the

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same conviction and sentence unless the claims presented in the previous petition

were denied for failure to exhaust. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1); Babbitt v.

Woodford, 177 F.3d 744, 745-46 (9th Cir. 1999). Additionally, a district court must

dismiss any new claims raised in a successive petition unless the petitioner received

an order from the court of appeals authorizing the district court to consider the

petition. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2).

Here, the instant petition challenges the same sentence as the previous

petition and Petitioner has not presented an order from the Ninth Circuit Court of

Appeals authorizing this Court to consider any new claims. Petitioner’s first petition

was adjudicated on the merits in this Court’s order denying the petition in August

1996. Accordingly, this Court must dismiss the instant petition in its entirety.

Respondent’s motion to dismiss, (Docket No. 6), is GRANTED. The instant

petition is DISMISSED as a second and successive petition pursuant to § 2244

(b)(1). Petitioner’s motion to withdraw the petition, (Docket No. 7), is DENIED as

moot. 

This order terminates Docket Nos. 6 and 7.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 

JEREMY FOGEL

United States District Judge 

5/17/10

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HERBERT ALEXANDER,

Petitioner,

 v.

JOHN W. HAVILAND, Warden,

Respondent. /

Case Number: CV09-04773 JF 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District

Court, Northern District of California.

That on , I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the

attached, by placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s)

hereinafter listed, by depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into

an inter-office delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Herbert Alexander E-50502

California State Prison-Solano

P.O. Box 4000

Vacaville, CA 95696

Dated: 

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

5/21/10

5/21/10

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