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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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DEPUTY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NATHANIEL MARCUS GANN, Civil No. 12cv2387-BEN (BLM) 

Petitioner, 

v. ORDER DISMISSING PETITION 

MATTHEW CATE, Secretary, et aI., WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

Respondents. 

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

Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, which is duplicative ofa Petition he is currently 

pursuing in this Court. Accordingly, the Court DISMISSES the instant Petition without 

prejudice to Petitioner to proceed with his claims in his first-filed pending action. 

In the instant Petition, Gann challenges his San Diego County Superior Court conviction 

for murder in case number SCD207862, and the resultant sentence of25 years to life. (Pet. at 

1.) Petitioner already has a petition for habeas corpus pending before this Court in which he 

challenges the same San Diego Superior Court conviction in case number SCD207862, in which 

he raises the same claims. (See Gann v. Frieden, et aI., So.Dist.Ca.Civil Case No. 1 Icv1418­

JAR (WMc)[ECF No.1].) In that case, Petitioner has filed a Motion for Stay and Abeyance 

which is currently pending. (Id. [ECF No.4].) The Court may dismiss a duplicative petition if 

it "merely repeats pending or previously litigated claims." Cato v. United States, 70 F.3d 1103, 

1105 n.2 (9th Cir. 1995) (citations omitted). Because the current Petition merely repeats claims 

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already raised in So.Dist.Ca.Civil Case No. llcv14l8-JAH (WMc), the instant Petition is 

DISMISSED as duplicative. 

CONCLUSION 

Based on the foregoing, the instant Petition is DISMISSED as duplicative. The dismissal 

is without prejudice to Petitioner to proceed with the claims presented in the instant Petition in 

So.Dist.Ca.Civil Case N . 11 cv 1418-JAH (WMc). 

DATED: 

Roger T. Benitez 

United States District Judge 

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