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Parties Involved:
Joe A. Lizarraga
Respondent
Octavio Vivano
Petitioner

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United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OCTAVIO VIVANO, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

JOE A. LIZARRAGA, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 18-cv-00028-JSC 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE 

PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS 

CORPUS AND MOTION FOR STAY 

Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 2 

Petitioner, a prisoner of the State of California, filed a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 and a motion for stay and abeyance. (Dkt. Nos. 1, 2.) Petitioner has paid the $5.00 

filing fee. His petition sets forth five claims challenging the constitutionality of petitioner’s 

conviction in state court: (1) Petitioner’s right to cross examination of the victim under the Fifth and 

Sixth Amendments, (2) ineffective assistance of trial counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth 

Amendments due to counsel’s failure to object to the trial court’s limitation on cross examination of 

the victim, (3) ineffective assistance of trial counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth 

Amendments due to counsel’s failure to explain facts pertinent to the Las Vegas assault to the trial 

court, (4) ineffective assistance of appellate counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, and 

(5) violation of the Confrontation Clause due to the admission of the victim’s statement from the 

sexual assault report identifying the assailant’s race through the testimony of a non-testifying sexual 

assault nurse. These claims, when liberally construed, are cognizable and potentially meritorious. 

The Clerk shall serve respondent and the respondent’s attorney, the Attorney General of 

the State of California, with a copy of this order and the petition with all attachments. 

In light of Petitioner’s motion to stay, before the Court orders Respondent to answer the 

petition, Respondent shall respond to the motion for a stay. Respondent is ordered to file a 

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