(HC) Morales v. McVay

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JUAN ORTEGA MORALES, III, No. 2:24-cv-1647 KJM CSK P 12 Petitioner, 13 v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 14 M. McVAY, et al., 15 Respondents. 16 17 I. INTRODUCTION 18 Petitioner is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel, with a petition for writ of habeas 19 corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the following reasons, this Court recommends that 20 petitioner’s motion to stay (ECF No. 7) be denied and that this action be dismissed because 21 petitioner failed to exhaust state court remedies as to…