Rodriguez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JULIO RODRIGUEZ Case No.: 13-CR-4514-JO-

Petitioner,

v. ORDER DENYING PETITIONER’S

MOTION TO REDUCE SENTENCE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 2255

Respondent. 16 17 18 19 20 21 Petitioner Julio Rodriguez (“Petitioner”) moves to reduce his sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the grounds that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his trial, sentencing, and appeal. Dkt. 760 (“§ 2255 Motion”). He also filed motions for discovery and to appoint counsel. Id. at 22. For the reasons below, the Court DENIES Petitioner’s motions. /// /// I. BACKGROUND Petitioner seeks to reduce the sentence that the Court gave him for conspiring to smuggle drugs into various California state prisons on behalf of the Mexican Mafia. On December 19, 2013, the government charged Petitioner, an associate of the Mexican Mafia (a prison gang…