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Parties Involved:
Tristan Lemon
Respondent
Victor Manuel Quintero
Petitioner

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

VICTOR MANUEL QUINTERO,

Petitioner,

v.

TRISTAN LEMON,

Respondent.

Case No. 1:22-cv-01568-JLT-SAB-HC

ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER’S

MOTION TO STAY

(ECF No. 15)

Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. 

In the petition, Petitioner challenges his 2018 Kern County Superior Court convictions 

voluntary manslaughter and other offenses. (ECF No. 1.) Respondent has filed an answer to the 

petition, and Petitioner has filed a traverse. (ECF Nos. 10, 14.) 

On May 10, 2023, Petitioner filed the instant motion to stay while his California Senate 

Bill (“SB”) 775 petition is pending in state court. (ECF No. 15.) The Kern County Superior 

Court found Petitioner made a prima facie showing, issued an order to show cause, and will hold 

an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the voluntary manslaughter conviction should be 

vacated and Petitioner should be resentenced. To date, Respondent has not filed any opposition 

or statement of non-opposition to the motion to stay, and the time for doing so has passed.

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Given that the state court’s resolution of Petitioner’s SB 775 petition may vacate a 

conviction that is challenged in the federal habeas petition, the Court finds that the objective of 

judicial efficiency is served by staying the instant proceeding pending resolution of Petitioner’s 

SB 775 petition in the Kern County Superior Court.

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Petitioner’s motion to stay (ECF No. 15) is GRANTED; 

2. This matter is STAYED; 

3. Petitioner is DIRECTED to file a status report within thirty (30) days of the date of 

service of this order and every ninety (90) days thereafter; and

4. Within thirty (30) days following the Kern County Superior Court’s order resolving 

Petitioner’s SB 775 petition, Petitioner shall notify the Court so that the stay may be 

lifted and the case proceed.

Petitioner is forewarned that failure to comply with this order will result in the Court 

vacating the stay.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 20, 2023 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

1 The Court notes, however, that such a stay should not be indefinite, and the Court may revisit the stay in the event 

that resolution of the SB 775 petition is unduly prolonged.

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