Michael J. Singh v. James Robertson
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
MICHAEL J. SINGH, Case No. CV 21-9379-MWF (ADS)
Petitioner
ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT
v. AND RECOMMENDATION OF
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE
JAMES ROBERTSON, Warden, JUDGE et al., 15 Respondents. 16 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition (Document No. 1), the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge recommending the Petition be denied (“Report,” Docket No. 18), the Objections to the Report (Docket No. 19), and the other relevant records on file. The Court has conducted a de novo review of the portions of the Report to which the Objections are directed — essentially to the Report’s analysis of the state appellate court’s opinion under highly deferential AEDPA review (id. at 2-3). See Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170, 181 (2011) (AEDPA imposes a “‘difficult to meet’ and ‘highly deferential’ standard for evaluating state-court rulings, which demands that state-court decisions be…