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Parties Involved:
Eric Arnold
Defendant
Joseph Bell
Plaintiff

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOSEPH BELL, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ERIC ARNOLD, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 16-cv-03034-PJH 

ORDER FOR PETITIONER TO SHOW 

CAUSE 

Petitioner, a California prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He has paid the filing fee. Petitioner challenges a 

November 8, 1996, conviction from the San Francisco County Superior Court. Petitioner 

argues that he received an unauthorized sentence in excess of the trial court’s jurisdiction 

because of state Propositions that were passed in 1990 before his trial and sentence. 

However, court records indicate that petitioner already filed a habeas petition in this court 

challenging the same conviction. See Bell v. Lamarque, Case No. 99-cv-3562-PJH. 

That case was denied on June 20, 2003, and an appeal was later denied. This appears 

to be a successive petition. 

 “A claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under 

section 2254 that was not presented in a prior application shall be dismissed . . .” 28 

U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2). This is the case unless, 

 (A) the applicant shows that the claim relies on a new 

rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on 

collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously 

unavailable; or 

 (B) (i) the factual predicate for the claim could not have 

been discovered previously through the exercise of due 

diligence; and 

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