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Parties Involved:
Robert A. Horel
Respondent
John M. Schoppe-Rico
Petitioner

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN SCHOPPE-RICO, 

Petitioner,

 vs.

ROBERT A. HOREL, Warden, 

Respondent.

 

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No. C 07-5416 JSW (PR)

ORDER DENYING MOTIONS TO

AMEND AND GRANTING

EXTENSION OF TIME

(Docket Nos. 25, 26, 28, 29, 30)

Petitioner, a prisoner of the State of California, filed a habeas corpus petition under

28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging the constitutional validity of his state conviction that raised

thirteen claims for relief. After reviewing the petition, the Court dismissed two claims,

dismissed five other claims with leave to amend, and found the remaining six claims to be

cognizable. Petitioner then filed an amended petition. After reviewing Petitioner’s first

amended petition, this Court ordered Respondent to show cause as to why eleven claims in

the amended petition should not be granted and dismissed two claims that were found not

cognizable on federal habeas review. 

Petitioner later filed a second amended petition and a request for a stay to “exhaust”

previously dismissed claims four and eight in state court, claims which the Court had

dismissed for failure to state a claim for federal habeas relief, as well as to “further

exhaust” other claims. The motion to exhaust was denied as unnecessary because

Petitioner’s intended unexhausted additional claims did not present a claim for relief and

Petitioner did not establish a need to return to the state courts for his intended purpose of

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“further”exhausting certain claims to add omitted facts and certain arguments, which he

identified as “cleaning up” the petitions. 

Since the Court’s order September 21, 2009 order denying the motion to amend,

Petitioner has filed two additional motion seeking leave to file a second or successive

habeas petition (docket no. 26) and a motion seeking to amend the petition (docket no. 29). 

Petitioner has not attached his proposed amended petition to either of these motions. 

Although the motions are largely incomprehensible, it appears that Petitioner is making

further arguments in support of his earlier motion to amend the first amended petition, the

operative pleading in this case. However, the Court finds that further exhaustion of the

claims raised, and the resulting delay in resolution of this case, is not appropriate, where

Petitioner has not established the need to return to the state courts. Therefore, Petitioner’s

motions to amend the first amended petition are DENIED (docket nos. 26, 29) for the

reasons set forth in this Court’s earlier order denying Petitioner’s motion to amend (docket

no. 24). Petitioner’s motions seeking an extension of time to file a traverse are

GRANTED (docket nos. 25, 27) and Petitioner’s traverse is deemed timely filed. 

Petitioner’s motion seeking leave to file an oversize brief is GRANTED (docket no. 30). 

The instant matter is now submitted for a determination on the merits.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 3, 2010 JEFFREY S. WHITE

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN M. SCHOPPE-RICO,

Plaintiff,

 v.

ROBERT A. HOREL et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV07-05416 JSW 

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 May 3, 2010, 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.

John M. Schoppe-Rico V-11328

Pelican Bay State Prison

P.O. Box 7500

Crescent City, CA 95532

Dated: May 3, 2010

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Jennifer Ottolini, Deputy Clerk

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