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Parties Involved:
Catalino Ortiz
Plaintiff
Matthew Whitaker
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CATALINO ORTIZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

MATTHEW WHITAKER,

Defendant.

Case No. 4:19-cv-00235-KAW 

AMENDED ORDER CLOSING CASE

AND DIRECTING THE CLERK OF 

COURT TO FILE PETITION IN 

CRIMINAL CASE

Re: Dkt. No. 1

On January 11, 2019, Petitioner Catalino Ortiz filed a petition for writ of error coram 

nobis. (Dkt. No. 1.) Counsel erroneously e-filed the petition as a habeas petition in a separate civil 

action, rather than as a motion in the criminal case. See United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502, 

505 n.4 (1954) (A writ of error coram nobis “is a step in the criminal case and not, like habeas 

corpus where relief is sought in a separate case and record, the beginning of a separate civil 

proceeding.”)

Since the present request was filed as a separate action, the undersigned directs the Clerk 

of Court to file a copy of the petition and its exhibits in Petitioner’s criminal case, United States v. 

Ortiz, Case No. 5:00-cr-20277-PVT-1. Additionally, once the criminal case is reassigned to an 

active magistrate judge, Petitioner is directed to furnish the assigned judge with a chamber’s copy 

of the petition and its tabbed exhibits.

In light of the foregoing, the civil action is hereby CLOSED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 14, 2020

__________________________________

KANDIS A. WESTMORE

United States Magistrate Judge

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