A federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing a California habeas petition seeking First Step Act earned time credits because the petitioner had been released from Bureau of Prisons custody and the court could no longer provide the requested relief.
A California federal magistrate judge ordered Roberto Gil to explain why his habeas challenge to a completed Florida conviction should not be summarily dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
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The Eastern District of California adopted a magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations, dismissed Deion Griffin’s Section 2254 habeas action without prejudice for failure to prosecute and comply with court orders, and declined to issue a certificate of appealability.
The Eastern District of California adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, dismissed Scott Keith Ernst’s amended § 2254 petition without leave to amend as time-barred, and declined to issue a certificate of appealability.
A magistrate judge recommended dismissal without prejudice under Younger v. Harris because the relief sought by state detainee Derek Howard Burr would interfere with his pending prosecution. The judge separately discussed the apparent lack of exhaustion.
The Court of Appeal affirmed a 77-years-to-life resentence, holding that the mitigating circumstance in Penal Code section 1385(c)(2)(A) requires the same showing needed to prove a disparate-sentencing violation under the Racial Justice Act, and that statewide statistics without individual comparato
A magistrate judge recommended dismissing a pro se state prisoner’s § 2254 petition because it attacks the outcome of a prior § 1983 data-breach lawsuit rather than the constitutionality of his custody.
The Sixth District held in a partially published opinion that Racial Justice Act statistics comparing Latinx overrepresentation among life-without-parole prisoners with the general population, rather than with similarly situated murder defendants, did not make a prima facie showing of disparate spec
A magistrate judge recommends dismissing a federal prisoner’s § 2241 petition for lack of jurisdiction, concluding that the savings clause of § 2255(e) does not allow a prisoner to use an intervening change in career-offender guideline interpretation to bypass AEDPA’s restrictions on sec