Samuel Patrick Burns v. Brandon Price

Case 2:21-cv-06823-AB-LAL Document Filed 06/07/ Page 1 of Page ID #:3354

1 2 3 4 5

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 SAMUEL PATRICK BURNS, Case No. LACV 21-6823-AB (LAL) Petitioner, ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND

RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED

v. STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE BRANDON PRICE, Respondent. 15 16 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition, the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation, Petitioner’s Objections and the remaining record, and has made a de novo determination. Petitioner argues in his Objections that the Court failed to consider his claim that he was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights to effective and conflict-free counsel, independent from a consideration of Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. (Objections at 2, 4-7.) However, Petitioner has failed to present any clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent recognizing a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to effective or conflict-free…