BAYAIRD v. CATE

GARY AUSTIN, Magistrate Judge

Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

On October 29, 2009, Petitioner filed the instant petition for writ of habeas corpus. Following a preliminary review of the petition, on December 2, 2009, the Court issued an order directing Respondent to file a response.

Pending before the Court is Petitioner's motion to amend the petition, filed on January 5, 2010. Petitioner seeks to include "vacating the conviction and sentence" as additional remedies requested by the petition.

Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides, in relevant part:

(a) Amendments Before Trial.

(1) Amending as a Matter of Course. A party may amend its pleading once as a matter of course:

(A) before being served with a responsive pleading; or

(B) within 20 days after serving the pleading if a responsive pleading is not allowed and the action is not yet on the trial calendar.

In this case, Respondent has not yet filed a responsive pleading. Therefore, Petitioner's motion to amend the petition will be granted so as to include the additional remedies in his request for relief.

Accordingly, Petitioner's motion to amend the petition is GRANTED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

(If petitioner is attacking a judgment which imposed a sentence to be served in the future, petitioner must fill in the name of the state where the judgment was entered. If petitioner has a sentence to be served in the future under a federal judgment which he wishes to attack, he should file a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, in the federal court which entered the judgment.)

(1) This petition must be legibly handwritten or typewritten, and signed by the petitioner under penalty of perjury. Any false statement of a material fact may serve as the basis for prosecution and conviction for perjury. All questions must be answered concisely in the proper space on the form. (2) If you have more than 4 grounds for relief, you may attach pages with the remaining grounds; however, the format of the attached pages must be the same as the petition and you must provide only a brief statement of facts. No citation to legal authority is required. A brief or memorandum in support of the petition may also be attached; however, the form petition must be complete in itself and may not simply refer to the attachments. (3) Upon receipt of a fee of $5 your petition will be filed if it is in proper order. (4) If you do not have the necessary funds for transcripts, counsel, appeal and other costs connected with a petition of this type, you may request permission to proceed in forma pauperis, in which event you must execute form AO-240 or other form required by the court, setting forth information establishing your inability to pay the costs. If you wish to proceed in forma pauperis, you must have an authorized officer at the penal institution complete the certificate as to the amount of money and securities on deposit to your credit in any account in the institution. (5) Only judgments entered by one court may be challenged in a single petition. If you seek to challenge judgments entered by different courts either in the same state of in different states, you must file separate petitions as to each court. (6) You must include all grounds for relief and all facts supporting such grounds for relief in the petition you file seeking relief from any judgment of conviction. (7) When the petition is fully completed, the original and at least two copies must be mailed to the Clerk of the United States District Court whose address is Clerk, U.S. District Court 2500 Tulare Street, Suite 1501 Fresno, California 93721 (8) Petitions which do not conform to these instructions will be returned with a notation as to the deficiency. (Revised 2/15/06) United States District Court District Name Prisoner No. Case No. Place of Confinement Name of Petitioner (include name under which convicted) Name of Respondent (authorized person having custody of petitioner) V. The Attorney General of the State of: PETITION 1. Name and location of court which entered the judgment of conviction under attack _________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Date of judgment of conviction ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Length of sentence _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Nature of offense involved (all counts) __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What was your plea? (Check one) (a) Not guilty [] (b) Guilty [] (c) Nolo contendere [] If you entered a guilty plea to one count or indictment, and a not guilty plea to another count or indictment, give details: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. If you pleaded not guilty, what kind of trial did you have? (Check one) (a) Jury [] (b) Judge only [] 7. Did you testify at the trial? Yes [] No [] 8. Did you appeal from the judgment of conviction? Yes [] No [] 9. If you did appeal, answer the following: (a) Name of court ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (b) Result _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) Date of result and citation, if known ________________________________________________________________________________________ (d) Grounds raised _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (e) If you sought further review of the decision on appeal by a higher state court, please answer the following: (1) Name of court ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Result ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Date of result and citation, if known ____________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Grounds raised ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (f) If you filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, please answer the following with respect to each direct appeal: (1) Name of court ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Result ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Date of result and citation, if known ____________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Grounds raised ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Other than a direct appeal from the judgment of conviction and sentence, have you previously filed any petitions, applications, or motions with respect to this judgment in any court, state or federal? Yes [] No [] 11. If your answer to 10 was "yes," give the following information: (a) (1) Name of court ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Nature of proceeding ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Grounds raised __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Did you receive an evidentiary hearing on your petition, application or motion? Yes [] No [] (5) Result __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (6) Date of result __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (b) As to any second petition, application or motion give the same information: (1) Name of court ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Name of proceeding ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Grounds raised __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Did you receive an evidentiary hearing on your petition, application or motion? Yes [] No [] (5) Result __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (6) Date of result __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) Did you appeal to the highest state court having jurisdiction the result of action taken on any petition, application or motion? (1) First petition, etc. Yes [] No [] (2) Second petition, etc. Yes [] No [] (d) If you did not appeal from the adverse action on any petition, application or motion, explain briefly why you did not: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. State concisely every ground on which you claim that you are being held unlawfully. Summarize briefly the facts supporting each ground. If necessary, you may attach pages stating additional grounds and facts supporting same. CAUTION: In order to proceed in the federal court, you must ordinarily first exhaust your available state court remedies as to each ground on which you request action by the federal court. If you fail to set forth all grounds in this petition, you may be barred from presenting additional grounds at a later date. For your information, the following is a list of the most frequently raised grounds for relief in habeas corpus proceedings. Each statement preceded by a letter constitutes a separate ground for possible relief. You may raise any grounds which you may have other than those listed if you have exhausted your state court remedies with respect to them. However, you should raise in this petition all available grounds (relating to this conviction) on which you base your allegations that you are being held in custody unlawfully. Do not check any of these listed grounds. If you select one or more of these grounds for relief, you must allege facts. The petition will be returned to you if you merely check (a) through (j) or any one of these grounds. (a) Conviction obtained by plea of guilty which was unlawfully induced or not made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. (b) Conviction obtained by use of coerced confession. (c) Conviction obtained by use of evidence gained pursuant to an unconstitutional search and seizure. (d) Conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained pursuant to an unlawful arrest. (e) Conviction obtained by a violation of the privilege against self-incrimination. (f) Conviction obtained by the unconstitutional failure of the prosecution to disclose to the defendant evidence favorable to the defendant. (g) Conviction obtained by a violation of the protection against double jeopardy. (h) Conviction obtained by action of a grand or petit jury which was unconstitutionally selected and impaneled. (i) Denial of effective assistance of counsel. (j) Denial of right of appeal. A. Ground one: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting FACTS (state briefly without citing cases or law): ___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ B. Ground two: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting FACTS (state briefly without citing cases or law): ___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ C. Ground three: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting FACTS (state briefly without citing cases or law): ___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ D. Ground four: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting FACTS (state briefly without citing cases or law): ___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. If any of the grounds listed in 12A, B, C, and D were not previously presented in any other court, state or federal, state briefly what grounds were not so presented, and give your reasons for not presenting them: _______________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Do you have any petition or appeal now pending in any court, either state or federal, as to the judgment under attack? Yes [] No [] 15. Give the name and address, if known, of each attorney who represented you in the following stages of the judgment attacked herein: (a) At preliminary hearing ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (b) At arraignment and plea _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) At trial ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (d) At sentencing _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (e) On appeal ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (f) In any post-conviction proceeding ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (g) On appeal from any adverse ruling in a post-conviction proceeding ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Were you sentenced on more than one count of an indictment, or on more than one indictment, in the same court and at the same time? Yes [] No [] 17. Do you have any future sentence to serve after you complete the sentence imposed by the judgment under attack? Yes [] No [] (a) If so, give name and location of court which imposed sentence to be served in the future: ___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (b) Give date and length of the above sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) Have you filed, or do you contemplate filing, any petition attacking the judgment which imposed the sentence to be served in the future? Yes [] No [] Wherefore, petitioner prays that the Court grant petitioner relief to which he may be entitled in this proceeding. _________________________________________________________ Signature of Attorney (if any) I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on _________________________________ Date _________________________________________________________ Signature of Petitioner