Davis v. Pliler
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
California State prisoner Dorian Davis appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court determined that Davis had not exhausted his state court remedies before seeking federal habeas relief. We granted a Certificate of Appealability to decide whether Davis had properly exhausted his claim that the trial court violated his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel by improperly granting his petition for self-representation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253, and review de novo the dismissal of Davis’s habeas petition. Manning v. Foster, 224 F.3d 1129, 1132 (9th Cir. 2000); James v. Pliler, 269 F.3d 1124, 1125 (9th Cir. 2001). We reverse and remand.
The district court dismissed, for lack of exhaustion, two other claims that were raised in Davis’s habeas petition. Following our reversal in this appeal, the district court will have before it a mixed petition containing both exhausted and unexhausted claims. When advising Davis of his options with regard to that mixed petition, the district court should be mindful of the protection accorded pro se litigants in view of the statute of limitations and complex procedural requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. See Ford v. Hubbard, 305 F.3d 875, 881-91 (9th Cir. 2002); Kelly v. Small, 300 F.3d 1159, 1164 (9th Cir. 2002); James, 269 F.3d at 1126; Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509, 520, 102 S.Ct. 1198, 71 L.Ed.2d 379 (1982).
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as may be provided by Ninth Cir. R. 36-3.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Dorian DAVIS v. Cheryl K. PLILER
- Status
- Published