Ellison v. Shinn

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Charles David Ellison, No. CV-16-08303-PCT-DWL 10 Petitioner, ORDER 11 v. DEATH PENALTY CASE 12 Ryan Thornell, et al., 13 Respondents.1 14 15 Petitioner Charles David Ellison is an Arizona death row inmate seeking habeas 16 relief from this Court. He has filed a motion pursuant to Rhines v. Weber,

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(2005), seeking to stay these proceedings and hold them in abeyance while he returns to 18 state court to exhaust two claims based on Simmons v. South Carolina,

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(1994). (Doc. 60.) Ellison…