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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 PAUL MOORE, Case No. 2:18-cv-1699-DC-JDP (P) 12 Petitioner, 13 v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 14 SCOTT FRAUENHEIM, 15 Respondent. 16 17 Paul Moore (“petitioner”) seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. ECF No. 18 2?. He was convicted of first-degree murder. Id. at 3. His conviction was affirmed by the state 19 appellate court in November 2016 and the California Supreme Court denied his petition for 20 review in March 2017. Id. He filed this petition on June 8, 2018. Alongside this petition, 21 petitioner filed a state habeas petition in the Colusa County Superior Court on June 4, 2018. That 22 petition was denied, after two evidentiary hearings, on August 19, 2022. ECF No. 50 at 9-10. 23 Subsequent state habeas petitions in the state appellate court and California Supreme Court were 24 also denied. Id. at 10. In the immediate petition, petitioner argues that he is entitled to habeas 25 relief because: (1) his trial and appellate…