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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MORRIS ANTHONY GREENBERG, No. 2:19-cv-02238-DAD-AC (HC) Petitioner, v. ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

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PATRICK COVELLO, Acting Warden, PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS Mule Creek State Prison, (Doc. No. 23) Respondent. 16 Petitioner Morris Anthony Greenberg, a state prisoner proceeding through counsel, filed the pending petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. In his petition, petitioner asserts that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution were violated when he was tried and convicted for the first-degree murder of Anthony Dumont, for which he is currently serving a 50-years-to-life sentence in state prison. (Doc. No. 1-1 at 6, 27.) Petitioner asserts four claims for federal habeas relief in his petition. (See…