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Parties Involved:
David Davey
Respondent
B. Gower
Respondent
Alex R. Samaro, Jr.
Petitioner
Gary Swarthout
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALEX R. SAMARO, JR.,

Petitioner,

v.

DAVID DAVEY, Warden,

Respondent.

Case No. 11-cv-05010-JST (PR) 

ORDER DIRECTING PARTIES TO 

FILE SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

On October 11, 2011, petitioner filed his original habeas petition in this Court.1 On 

January 9, 2013, this Court granted respondent’s motion to dismiss for failure to exhaust claims in 

state court, and allowed petitioner to seek a stay of his petition while he returned to state court to 

exhaust the unexhausted claims. Petitioner’s motion to lift the stay was subsequently granted, and 

his amended petition was filed on July 15, 2013. On November 10, 2014, this Court granted 

respondent’s motion to dismiss certain claims in the amended petition as unexhausted or untimely 

and directed respondent to answer the remaining claims. 

Respondent has filed an answer, and petitioner has filed a traverse. A review of 

respondent’s brief shows that respondent has not fully addressed all of petitioner’s claims. For 

example, respondent does not address petitioner’s sub-claims that: (1) counsel was ineffective for 

failing to object to the victim’s in-court identification of petitioner, ECF No. 14 at 12, claim 1.2;

and (2) the prosecutor committed misconduct by discriminating on the basis of race in jury 

 

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Petitioner originally named Gary Swarthout, former warden of California State Prison – Solano, 

as the respondent in this action. Petitioner later named B. Gower, warden of California 

Correctional Center, as the respondent. Pursuant to Rule 25(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure, David Davey, the current warden of California State Prison – Corcoran, where 

petitioner is currently incarcerated, is hereby SUBSTITUTED as respondent in place of 

petitioner’s prior custodians.

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selection, ECF No. 14 at 13, claim 2.4. Respondent also fails to address petitioner’s claims that: 

(1) the failure to give a unanimity instruction on the assault count violated petitioner’s due process 

rights, ECF No. 14 at 15, claim 3.4; and (2) the statutory sentence for robbery in concert in an 

inhabited dwelling with a gang enhancement was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the 

Eighth Amendment, ECF No. 14 at 15, claim 3.2.

Accordingly, respondent is ordered to file a supplemental answer addressing the merits of 

all of petitioner’s claims and subclaims within sixty (60) days of the filing date of this order. 

Petitioner may file a supplemental traverse within thirty (30) days thereafter.

The Clerk is directed to substitute David Davey on the docket as the respondent in this 

action.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 10, 2016

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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