Stidham v. Wickham et al

Filing 8

ORDER - The Clerk shall file and ELECTRONICALLY SERVE the petition (ECF No. 1 -1) on the respondents. (E-service 12/6/2017.) Clerk shall add AG as counsel for respondents. Respondents shall file a response to the petition, including potentially a motion to dismiss by 3/6/2018. Petitioner shall have 45 days from service of the answer, motion to dismiss, or other response to file a reply or opposition. Any additional state court exhibits shall be filed with a separate index as specified herein, and SHALL SEND courtesy copies to Reno "Staff Attorney." Signed by Judge Howard D. McKibben on 12/6/2017. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DRM)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 *** 9 JASON EDWARD STIDHAM, 10 Case No. 3:17-cv-00500-HDM-WGC Petitioner, ORDER v. 11 HAROLD WICKHAM, et al., 12 Respondents. 13 14 Petitioner Jason Edward Stidham has submitted a pro se petition for writ of 15 habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He has now paid the filing fee (see ECF 16 No. 7). The court has reviewed the petition pursuant to Habeas Rule 4, and it shall be 17 docketed and served on respondents. 18 A petition for federal habeas corpus should include all claims for relief of which 19 petitioner is aware. If petitioner fails to include such a claim in his petition, he may be 20 forever barred from seeking federal habeas relief upon that claim. See 28 U.S.C. 21 §2254(b) (successive petitions). If petitioner is aware of any claim not included in his 22 petition, he should notify the court of that as soon as possible, perhaps by means of a 23 motion to amend his petition to add the claim. 24 25 26 27 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Clerk shall file and ELECTRONICALLY SERVE the petition (ECF No. 1-1) on the respondents. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk shall add Adam Paul Laxalt, Nevada Attorney General, as counsel for respondents. 28 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondents shall file a response to the petition, including potentially by motion to dismiss, within ninety (90) days of service of the petition, with any requests for relief by petitioner by motion otherwise being subject to the normal briefing schedule under the local rules. Any response filed shall comply with the remaining provisions below, which are entered pursuant to Habeas Rule 5. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any procedural defenses raised by respondents in this case shall be raised together in a single consolidated motion to dismiss. In other words, the court does not wish to address any procedural defenses raised herein either in seriatum fashion in multiple successive motions to dismiss or embedded in the answer. Procedural defenses omitted from such motion to dismiss will be subject to potential waiver. Respondents shall not file a response in this case that consolidates their procedural defenses, if any, with their response on the merits, except pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(2) as to any unexhausted claims clearly lacking merit. If respondents do seek dismissal of unexhausted claims under § 2254(b)(2): (a) they shall do so within the single motion to dismiss not in the answer; and (b) they shall specifically direct their argument to the standard for dismissal under § 2254(b)(2) set forth in Cassett v. Stewart, 406 F.3d 614, 623-24 (9th Cir. 2005). In short, no procedural defenses, including exhaustion, shall be included with the merits in an answer. All procedural defenses, including exhaustion, instead must be raised by motion to dismiss. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, in any answer filed on the merits, respondents shall specifically cite to and address the applicable state court written decision and state court record materials, if any, regarding each claim within the response as to that claim. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that petitioner shall have forty-five (45) days from service of the answer, motion to dismiss, or other response to file a reply or opposition, with any other requests for relief by respondents by motion otherwise being subject to the normal briefing schedule under the local rules. 28 2 1 2 3 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any additional state court record exhibits filed herein by either petitioner or respondents shall be filed with a separate index of exhibits identifying the exhibits by number. The CM/ECF attachments that are filed further shall 4 5 6 be identified by the number of the exhibit in the attachment. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties SHALL SEND courtesy copies of all 7 exhibits in this case to the Clerk of Court, 400 S. Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89501, directed 8 to the attention of “Staff Attorney” on the outside of the mailing address label. 9 Additionally, in the future, all parties shall provide courtesy copies of any additional 10 exhibits submitted to the court in this case, in the manner described above. 11 12 DATED: December 6,7, 2017. December 2017. 13 HOWARD D. MCKIBBEN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3

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