Pfeiffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONALD MEZA, No. 2:20-cv-2316 DAD CSK P Petitioner, v. FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS CHRISTIAN PFEIFFER, Warden, (ECF No. 40) Respondent. 16 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se. Petitioner’s motion to vacate judgment is before the Court. Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b). As discussed below, it is recommended that the motion be denied. I. BACKGROUND 1. On March 10, 2011, petitioner was convicted in the Sacramento County Superior Court of false imprisonment and various sex offenses against a child, and on April 8, 2011, was sentenced to an indeterminate state prison term of 42 years-to-life. (ECF No. 10-1.) 2. Petitioner filed an appeal. On July 19, 2012, the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District reduced the felony false imprisonment conviction to misdemeanor false imprisonment and remanded for resentencing, but otherwise affirmed the judgment. (ECF No. 10-2 at 2.) 28 …