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Parties Involved:
Ronald Joseph Pereira
Petitioner
Gary Swarthout
Respondent

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RONALD JOSEPH PEREIRA, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

GARY SWARTHOUT, 

Respondent. 

No. 2:14-cv-0530 KJM AC P 

ORDER 

 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel on an application for writ of 

habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. 

On June 4, 2014, the court struck Grounds 1 through 3 and 5 through 9 from the petition 

and granted petitioner’s request to stay the petition, which now contains only Ground 4. ECF No. 

15. The stay was granted and the case administratively closed to allow petitioner to exhaust his 

unexhausted claims in state court. Id. Petitioner was ordered to notify this court of any ruling 

from the California Supreme Court exhausting his then unexhausted claims, within thirty days of 

a ruling from that court. Id. Within that time he was also to request the stay be lifted and file an 

amended petition. Id. On September 21, 2015, the court received and docketed a request for 

status that suggested petitioner may have previously attempted to notify the court of the status of 

his attempts to exhaust his claims in state court. ECF No. 17. Petitioner was directed to file a 

status report advising the court of the status of his efforts to exhaust his state court remedies and 

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whether he was seeking to lift the stay. ECF No. 18. Petitioner then filed a notice in which he 

advised that he had requested the stay be lifted over eight months ago. ECF No. 19.1 Petitioner’s 

request to lift the stay was granted and the case re-opened, and petitioner was ordered to notify 

the court whether he would be amending the petition to include any of the previously stricken 

claims. ECF No. 20. 

Petitioner has now responded to the order. Petitioner requests that the court consider the 

original petition as the amended petition because he no longer has any of his legal paperwork, 

including his original petition, to refer to in drafting an amended document. He states an 

intention to revive all of his original claims. ECF No. 22. Petitioner’s request will be denied. 

Instead, the Clerk of the Court will be directed to send petitioner a blank habeas petition form and 

the first twenty-seven pages of the original petition. Petitioner may file an amended petition 

which must include information regarding the exhaustion of the previously unexhausted claims as 

requested on the petition form. Upon filing of an amended petition, the Clerk of the Court will be 

directed to attach pages twenty-eight through one hundred sixty-three of the original petition as 

exhibits to the amended petition. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. Petitioner’s request to treat his original petition as his amended petition (ECF No. 22) 

is denied. 

2. Petitioner shall have thirty days from the filing of this order to file an amended 

petition. The amended petition must include information regarding the exhaustion of the 

previously unexhausted claims as requested on the petition form. If petitioner does not file an 

amended petition, the case will proceed on Ground 4 of the original petition. 

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3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send petitioner a copy of the first twenty-seven 

pages of the original petition (ECF No. 1) and a blank § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus 

form. 

DATED: November 16, 2015 

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