Dickinson
(HC) Heath v. Dickinson
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 E.H.1, ) Case No.: 1:24-cv-01166 JLT EPG (HC) ) Petitioner, ) ORDER ADOPTING THE FINDINGS AND ) RECOMMENDATIONS, DENYING PETITION v. ) FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, ) DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT TO CLOSE BILL DICKINSON, ) CASE, AND DECLINING TO ISSUE ) CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY Respondent. ) ) (Docs. 1, 11) ) E.H. proceeds pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his status as a ward of the court on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to the findings that he violated Cal. Pen. Code §§ 243.4 and 647.6, for sexual battery and annoying or molesting a child. (Doc 1 at 4.) Petitioner exhausted these claims before the state on direct appeal. (See id. at 2; Doc. 11 at 7.) The magistrate judge found Petitioner was not entitled to habeas relief on the grounds raised in his petition, because “the state court’s…