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Parties Involved:
Paul David Johnson
Petitioner
People for the State of California
Respondent

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

a

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PAUL DAVID JOHNSON, P80888, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

RON DAVIS, Warden, 

Respondent. 

Case No. 19-cv-04270-CRB (PR) 

 

ORDER DISMISSING PETITION 

FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS 

CORPUS AS SECOND OR 

SUCCESSIVE 

(ECF No. 3) 

Petitioner, a state prisoner incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, has filed a second or 

successive petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging: (1) DNA evidence 

will prove that the victim falsely testified when she accused him of rape and other related crimes 

for which he was convicted in 2000 in Alameda County Superior Court and (2) ineffective 

assistance of counsel for failing to seek and use DNA evidence. His first petition was denied on 

the merits on November 14, 2006. See Johnson v. Runnels, No. 3:04-cv-05072-CRB (N.D. Cal. 

Nov. 14, 2006) (order denying petition for a writ of habeas corpus). 

A second or successive petition may not be filed in this court unless petitioner first obtains 

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit an order authorizing this court to 

consider the petition. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). Petitioner has not obtained such an order 

from the Ninth Circuit. The petition accordingly is DISMISSED without prejudice to refiling if 

petitioner obtains the necessary order. 

But based solely on petitioner’s affidavit of poverty, his application to proceed in forma 

pauperis (ECF No. 3) under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 is GRANTED. The clerk shall close the file. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: December 13, 2019 

______________________________________ 

CHARLES R. BREYER 

United States District Judge 

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PAUL DAVID JOHNSON, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

PEOPLE FOR THE STATE OF 

CALIFORNIA, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 3:19-cv-04270-CRB 

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 December 13, 2019, 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. 

Paul David Johnson ID: P-80888 

San Quentin State Prison 2-N-9UP 

San Quentin, CA 94974 

Dated: December 13, 2019 

Susan Y. Soong 

Clerk, United States District Court 

By:________________________ 

Lashanda Scott, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable CHARLES R. BREYER 

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