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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

ARMANDO GARCIA-WEHR,

Petitioner,

v.

R. GROUNDS,

Respondent.

Case No. 15-cv-00370-VC (PR)

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO STAY; 

ISSUING NEW BRIEFING SCHEDULE

Re: Dkt. No. 4

Petitioner Armando Garcia-Wehr moves, under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), to 

stay and abey his petition so that he may exhaust two claims in state court. The Court has 

reviewed the petition Garcia-Wehr submitted to the California Supreme Court, Pet’n, Ex. B, ECF 

Dkt. No. 1-4 at 31-51; Ex. C, Dkt. Nos. 1-6 , 1-7 and 1-8, finds that the two claims are stated with 

enough particularity that they are exhausted within the meaning of federal habeas law. And the 

respondent agrees that the claims are exhausted. Therefore, there is no need for Garcia-Wehr to 

return to state court to exhaust those two claims. 

In his reply brief, Garcia-Wehr fleetingly mentions a third potential unexhausted claim, for 

ineffective assistance of counsel. The question whether a stay is warranted for exhaustion of this 

claim is not properly presented, because it was not part of the motion for a stay. Moreover, 

Garcia-Wehr has done nothing to show that a stay for exhaustion of a claim for ineffective 

assistance of counsel is warranted under Rhines. 

Accordingly, Garcia-Wehr’s motion to stay his petition is denied. The two claims in 

Garcia-Wehr’s motion are exhausted and will be briefed with the other claims in the petition. The 

briefing schedule on Garcia-Wehr’s petition is reinstated. Within twenty-eight days from the date 

of this order, the respondent shall file an answer or other responsive pleading in response to the 

Court’s order to show cause. If Garcia-Wehr wishes to respond to the answer, he shall do so by 

filing a traverse with the Court and serving it on the respondent within thirty days of his receipt of 

the answer. If the respondent files a motion to dismiss, Garcia-Wehr may file an opposition or a 

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statement of non-opposition to the motion within thirty days of receipt of the motion and 

respondent shall file a reply within fourteen days of receipt of the opposition.

This order terminates docket number 4. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 13, 2015

______________________________________

VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARMANDO GARCIA-WEHR,

Plaintiff,

v.

R. GROUNDS,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-00370-VC 

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 August 13, 2015, 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.

Armando Garcia-Wehr ID: AG-4922

Salinas Valley State Prison B3-237

PO Box 1050

Soledad, CA 93960 

Dated: August 13, 2015

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Kristen Melen, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable VINCE CHHABRIA

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