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Parties Involved:
Robert Anthony Martinelli
Petitioner
Robert Neuschmid
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT ANTHONY MARTINELLI,

Petitioner,

v.

ROBERT NEUSCHMID,

Respondent.

Case No. 18-cv-02610-JD 

ORDER DISMISSING MOTION 

FOR A STAY WITH LEAVE TO 

AMEND

Re: Dkt. No. 11

Robert Martinelli, a state prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The Court ordered respondent to show cause regarding the claim 

that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel. Respondent filed a motion to dismiss 

arguing that the sole claim in the petition was unexhausted. Petitioner has filed a motion for a 

stay.

Before he may challenge either the fact or length of his confinement in a habeas petition in 

this Court, petitioner must present to the California Supreme Court any claims he wishes to raise 

in this Court. See Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509, 522 (1982) (holding every claim raised in federal 

habeas petition must be exhausted). The general rule is that a federal district court must dismiss a 

federal habeas petition containing any claim as to which state remedies have not been exhausted. 

Id. In Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005) the United States Supreme Court found that a stay 

and abeyance of a mixed federal petition should be available only in the limited circumstance that 

good cause is shown for a failure to have first exhausted the claims in state court, that the claim or 

claims at issue potentially have merit and that there has been no indication that petitioner has been 

intentionally dilatory in pursuing the litigation. Rhines, supra, at 277-78.

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United States District Court

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Petitioner seeks a stay pursuant to Rhines; however, he presents no arguments to 

demonstrate good cause as set forth above. The motion for a stay (Docket No. 11) is 

DISMISSED without prejudice. Within twenty-eight days, petitioner shall file an amended 

motion for a stay and present arguments in support of a Rhines stay.1 Failure to file an amended 

motion may result in the dismissal of this action. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 24, 2018

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

 

1 A district court has the discretion to stay a petition containing only unexhausted claims under the 

circumstances set forth in Rhines. Mena v. Long, 813 F.3d 907, 909 (9th Cir. 2016). 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT ANTHONY MARTINELLI,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROBERT NEUSCHMID,

Defendant.

Case No. 18-cv-02610-JD 

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 October 24, 2018, 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.

Robert Anthony Martinelli ID: BC-9943

C.S.P. Solano A2-229 L

2100 Peabody Road

P.O. Box 4000

Vacaville, CA 95696 

Dated: October 24, 2018

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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