United States Ninth Circuit

When a district court receives a habeas petition with both exhausted and unexhausted claims, it must advise a pro se petitioner about the option of deleting the unexhausted claims rather than having the entire petition dismissed without prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2000
• Decided 10/29/2001
• Published 10/29/2001

Judges

• Before:  CANBY, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and SEDWICK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Verna Wefald, Pasadena, California, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas L. Wilson, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondents-appellees.