(HC) Hudson v. Warden, California Rehabilitation Center

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JORDAN CORDELL HUDSON, No. 2:19-cv-01522 KJM GGH P Petitioner, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CALIFORNIA REHABILITATION CENTER, Warden, 15 Respondent.

17 Introduction and Summary Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254. The matter was referred to the United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §636(b)(1) and Local Rule 302(c). Petitioner, convicted of serial sex crimes, raises two claims, but they both concern insufficiency of evidence. An appeal was taken, but on a sentencing issue only. Petitioner directed attacks to the merits of his conviction only in state habeas proceedings. Somewhat confusingly, petitioner in this federal case, apparently raises as a strongly argued straight claim that the evidence showing him to be at a different place when one of the crimes took place renders the evidence of conviction on that count to be…