Filed: Jan. 15, 2015
Latest Update: Jan. 15, 2015
Summary: ORDER OF DISMISSAL ANDREW J. GUILFORD, District Judge. Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed a "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus" on January 12, 2015. The Petition challenges Petitioner's 1991 state court conviction for the premeditated attempted murder of Larry James Rosson. Petitioner previously challenged this same conviction in a prior habeas corpus petition filed in this Court. See Lockmiller v. Tilton, ED CV 06-932-JSL(E). On January 31, 2007, this Court entered Judgment in Lockmiller
Summary: ORDER OF DISMISSAL ANDREW J. GUILFORD, District Judge. Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed a "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus" on January 12, 2015. The Petition challenges Petitioner's 1991 state court conviction for the premeditated attempted murder of Larry James Rosson. Petitioner previously challenged this same conviction in a prior habeas corpus petition filed in this Court. See Lockmiller v. Tilton, ED CV 06-932-JSL(E). On January 31, 2007, this Court entered Judgment in Lockmiller ..
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ORDER OF DISMISSAL
ANDREW J. GUILFORD, District Judge.
Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed a "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus" on January 12, 2015. The Petition challenges Petitioner's 1991 state court conviction for the premeditated attempted murder of Larry James Rosson. Petitioner previously challenged this same conviction in a prior habeas corpus petition filed in this Court. See Lockmiller v. Tilton, ED CV 06-932-JSL(E). On January 31, 2007, this Court entered Judgment in Lockmiller v. Tilton, ED CV 06-932-JSL(E), denying and dismissing the prior petition with prejudice as untimely.
The Court must dismiss the present Petition in accordance with 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b) (as amended by the "Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996"). Section 2244(b) requires that a petitioner seeking to file a "second or successive" habeas petition first obtain authorization from the Court of Appeals. See Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147, 157 (2007) (where petitioner did not receive authorization from Court of Appeals before filing second or successive petition, "the District Court was without jurisdiction to entertain [the petition]"); Barapind v. Reno, 225 F.3d 1100, 1111 (9th Cir. 2000) ("the prior-appellate-review mechanism set forth in § 2244(b) requires the permission of the court of appeals before `a second or successive habeas application under § 2254' may be commenced"). A petition need not be repetitive to be "second or successive," within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b). See, e.g., Thompson v. Calderon, 151 F.3d 918, 920-21 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 965 (1998); Calbert v. Marshall, 2008 WL 649798, at *2-4 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 6, 2008). The dismissal of a habeas petition as untimely "constitutes an adjudication on the merits that renders future petitions under § 2254 challenging the same conviction `second or successive' petitions under § 2244(b)." McNabb v. Yates, 576 F.3d 1028, 1030 (9th Cir. 2009). Petitioner evidently has not yet obtained authorization from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.1 Consequently, this Court cannot entertain the present Petition. See Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. at 157; see also Remsen v. Att'y Gen. of Calif., 471 Fed. App'x 571, 571 (9th Cir. 2012) (if a petitioner fails to obtain authorization from the Court of Appeals to file a second or successive petition, "the district court lacks jurisdiction to consider the petition and should dismiss it.") (citation omitted).
For all of the foregoing reasons, the Petition is denied and dismissed without prejudice.
LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERED ACCORDINGLY.
