(HC) Sipes v. Corcoran California State Prison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEFFREY TODD SIPES, Case No. 1:24-cv-00622-JLT-EPG-HC

Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION

RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF PETITION

v. FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

CORCORAN CALIFORNIA STATE

PRISON,

14 Respondent. 15 Petitioner Jeffrey Todd Sipes is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons discussed herein, the undersigned recommends denial of the petition for writ of habeas corpus. I. BACKGROUND Following a bench trial in the Fresno County Superior Court, Petitioner was convicted of forcible lewd or lascivious acts against a child under the age of fourteen years (count 3), nonforcible lewd or lascivious acts against a child under the age of fourteen years (count 4), forcible rape (count 5), and sexual penetration of a minor fourteen years of age or older (count 9). Prior to trial, Petitioner pleaded no contest to possession of child…