Heusner v. Neven

Opinion

1 Rene L. Valladares Federal Public Defender 2 Nevada State Bar No. 11479 3 *Alicia R. Intriago Assistant Federal Public Defender 4 California State Bar No. 320102 411 E. Bonneville Ave., Ste. 250 5 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 6 (702) 388-6577 Alicia_Intriago@fd.org 7 8 *Attorney for Petitioner Allen Heusner

10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 DISTRICT OF NEVADA

12 Allen Heusner,

13 Petitioner, Case No. 2:14-cv-01119-RFB-GWF

14 v. Unopposed motion for extension of time to file opposition to 15 Dwight Neven, et al., Respondents’ Motion to Dismiss

16 Respondents. (First Request) 17

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 2 Petitioner Allen Heusner initiated this federal habeas action on July 9, 2014. 3 ECF No. 1-1. The Federal Public Defender’s office appeared on behalf of Heusner on 4 October 26, 2018, and filed a second amended petition on May 8, 2019. ECF Nos. 31, 5 44. On May 24, 2019, this Court stayed federal proceedings for Heusner to exhaust 6 state court remedies on a claim brought under the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 7 decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018). ECF No. 47. 8 The undersigned attorney filed her notice of appearance on May 20, 2020. ECF 9 No. 51. She filed a motion to reopen federal proceedings that same day. ECF No. 55. 10 This Court officially re-opened federal proceedings on July 6, 2021. ECF No. 55. 11 Respondents filed a motion to dismiss Heusner’s second amended petition for writ of 12 habeas corpus on January 25, 2022. ECF No. 69. Heusner’s opposition to the motion 13 to dismiss is currently due February 7, 2022. 14 Heusner respectfully asks this Court to enter an order extending the deadline 15 to file his opposition to Respondents’ Motion to Dismiss by 14 days from February 7, 16 2022, until Tuesday, February 22, 2022. 1 17 This is Heusner’s first request for an extension of this deadline. 18 The undersigned attorney contacted opposing counsel, Deputy Attorney 19 General Katrina Samuels, on February 4, 2022, who did not object to this request for 20 an extension of time. Her lack of objection should not be construed as agreeing with 21 the accuracy of the representations in this motion. 22 Counsel has begun working on the opposition. However, due to counsel’s recent 23 schedule she needs additional time to complete it. In addition to the opposition, 24 counsel is also currently working on an amended petition in Herndon v. Neven, No. 25 26 1 Technically 14 days falls on Monday, February 21, 2022, which is a federal 27 holiday. Accordingly, the filing deadline falls the following day. 1| | 3:20-cev-00489-MMD-CLB (D. Nev.), due February 9, 2022, and an application for a 2|| certificate of appealability due February 17, 2022, in Gallegos v. Baca, No. 21-16612 (9th Cir.). 4 Accordingly, counsel respectfully requests this Court grant the request for an extension of time to file the opposition to Respondents’ Motion to Dismiss in order for 6| | the effective and thorough representation of Petitioner Heusner in his federal habeas action. 8 Dated February 7, 2022. 9 Respectfully submitted, 10 Rene L. Valladares Federal Public Defender 12 13 /s/ Alicia RIntriago Alicia R. Intriago 14 Assistant Federal Public Defender 15 16 It is so ordered: 17 18 19 RICHA LWARE, II 20 United States District Court 21 DATED this 8th day of February, 2022. 22 23 24 25 26 27