1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 RANDY DEWAYNE PITTMAN, Case No. 22-cv-05213-JSW 8 Plaintiff, ORDER OF DISMISSAL 9 v. 10 FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., 11 Defendants. 12 Plaintiff, an inmate in the Santa Rita County Jail, has filed a pro se civil rights action under 13 |} 42U S.C. § 1983 seeking a recalculation of his sentence and an earlier release date. Habeas is the 14 || “exclusive remedy” for the prisoner who seeks “‘immediate or speedier release’” from 3 15 || confinement. Skinner v. Switzer,

(2011). Plaintiff must bring his claims in a a 16 || petition for a writ of habeas corpus, not in a civil rights complaint, because seeks a reduction in his 2 17 || sentence and an earlier release date of June 16, 2023. Accordingly, this case is DISMISSED Z 18 || without prejudice to Plaintiff filing his claims in a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The clerk 19 || shall enter judgment and close the file. 20 IT IS SO ORDERED. 21 Dated: February 3, 2023 22 □ □ / JEFFREY S. ITE 24 ‘Unitdd States/District Judge 25

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