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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 BYRON NEAL, ) Case No. 2:23-cv-02921-CAS (PVC) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ORDER APPROVING FINDINGS ) ) AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF 13 v. ) UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE ) JUDGE )

J. ENGLMAN, Warden, )

) ) Defendant. ) ) 17 18 I. INTRODUCTION Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (dkt. 1, the “Petition”), all of the records herein, the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge (dkt. 14, the “Report”), and Petitioner’s Response to the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation (dkt. 17, the “Response”). Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b), the Court has conducted a de novo review of those portions of the Report to which objections have been stated. Having completed its review, the Court accepts the…