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Parties Involved:
Rick Hill
Defendant
Richard A. Roundtree
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

RICHARD A. ROUNDTREE,

Petitioner,

 vs.

RICK HILL, Warden,

Respondent. /

No. C 12-4577 PJH (PR)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

This is a habeas case brought pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner had a previous

case, it appeared attacking the same judgment, Roundtree v. Lewis, C 03-3151 PJH (PR). 

The petition in that case was denied in an order entered on October 6, 2006. The Ninth

Circuit denied a request for a certificate of appealability on April 17, 2007. Petitioner was

ordered to show cause why this petition should not be dismissed as second or successive. 

Petitioner has filed a response.

A habeas petitioner may not file a second or successive petition unless he or she

first obtains from the appropriate United States Court of Appeals an order authorizing the

filing. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). Petitioner has not obtained such an order from the

Ninth Circuit. In his response to the order to show cause, petitioner does not address that

this is a successive petition, rather stating that the court should review the case in the

interest of justice. The court is unable to review the petition without an order from the Ninth

Circuit.

The petition is accordingly DISMISSED without prejudice to filing a new petition if

petitioner obtains the necessary order. Because reasonable jurists would not find the

court’s conclusion that this petition is second or successive debatable or wrong, a COA is

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DENIED. See Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 483 (2000) (standard). The clerk shall

close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 2, 2013. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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