Diaz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAVIER ROMERO OQUITA, Case No. 1:19-cv-00670-AWI-SAB-HC

Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION

RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF PETITION

v. FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

RALPH DIAZ, Respondent.

15 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. I. BACKGROUND On December 16, 2015, Petitioner was convicted by a jury in the Tulare County Superior Court of two counts of committing a forcible lewd act upon a child under fourteen and one count of showing or sending harmful matter to seduce a minor. (1 CT1 151–53, 170). Petitioner was sentenced to an imprisonment term of eleven years. (1 CT 170). On March 13, 2018, the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District affirmed the judgment. People v. Oquita, No. F073234, 2018 WL 1281971 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 13, 2018). On May 16, 2018, the California Supreme Court denied the petition for…