Hill v. The State of Nevada

Opinion

4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 6 * * * 7 MARVIE LEE HILL, Case No. 2:25-cv-00968-GMN-DJA 8 Petitioner, 9 v. ORDER

10 STATE OF NEVADA, et al., 11 Respondents. 12 13 14 Petitioner has submitted a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 15 2254. ECF No. 1. Petitioner has not paid the filing fee ($5.00) or filed an Application to Proceed 16 In Forma Pauperis. Because this matter has not been properly commenced, it will be dismissed 17 without prejudice to bringing a new action. 18 Under 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) and the Judicial Conference Schedule of Fees, a $5.00 filing 19 fee is required to initiate a habeas action in a federal district court. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) 20 and the Court’s Local Rule, LSR 1-1, a habeas petitioner unable to pay the filing fee must file an 21 Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis on the form provided by the Court and must include a 22 financial affidavit disclosing the applicant’s income, assets, expenses.1 23 In addition to Petitioner’s failure to pay the filing fee, it appears that the sentences 24 imposed for the convictions she seeks to challenge have expired. See ECF No. 1 at 7-8. If so, 25 this Court may not have jurisdiction to invalidate those convictions in a habeas proceeding. See 26 1 Because Petitioner is no longer incarcerated, she is not required to provide an inmate account statement 27 or a financial certificate with her application. See Local Rule, LSR 1-2. 1 || Maleng v. Cook, 490 U.S. 488, 492 (1989) (“[O]nce the sentence imposed for a conviction has 2 || completely expired, the collateral consequences of that conviction are not themselves sufficient 3 || to render an individual ‘in custody’ for the purposes of a habeas attack.”). Thus, in deciding 4 || whether to file a new habeas action, Petitioner should consider whether she can demonstrate a 5 || “genuine restraint on liberty” sufficient to meet the “in custody” requirement under § 2254. See 6 || Williamson v. Gregoire, 151 F.3d 1180, 1183 (9th Cir. 1998). 7 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that this action is dismissed without prejudice to the 8 || filing ofa petition in a new action with either the $5.00 filing fee or a properly completed 9 || Application to Proceed Jn Forma Pauperis. The Clerk of Court is kindly directed to close this 10 || case. 11 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a Certificate of Appealability is denied as jurists of 12 || reason would not find the Court's dismissal of this improperly commenced action without 13 || prejudice to be debatable or incorrect. 14 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk is kindly directed to send Petitioner two 15 || copies each of the forms for an Application to Proceed Jn Forma Pauperis for non-inmates and 16 || anoncapital Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, one copy of the 17 || instructions for each form, and a copy of the papers that she submitted in this action. 18 DATED THIS 5 June _, 2025. 19 20 UNITED ES DISTRICT JUDGE

22 23 24 25 || ————- For example, the Ninth Circuit has held that the conditions of a Nevada petitioner’s lifetime supervision 26 || as sex offender, which included a $30 monthly fee, electronic monitoring, approval of his residence by parole officer, and keeping his parole officer informed of his current address, did not place the petitioner 27 || “in custody” for the purposes of § 2254. See Munoz v. Smith, 17 F.4th 1237, 1238-39 (9th Cir. 2021). 28