Sherman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 VESTER L. PATTERSON, Case No. 1:18-cv-01688-DAD-JDP Petitioner, ORDER VACATING DECEMBER 20, 2018

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

v. ECF No. 4 STU SHERMAN,

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO

Respondent. DISMISS PETITION AT SCREENING ECF No. 1 17 18 Petitioner Vester L. Patterson, a state prisoner without counsel, filed a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on December 12, 2018. ECF No. 1. Petitioner challenged the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (“CDCR”) calculation of his release date, claiming that on January 14, 2016, CDCR administratively imposed sentence enhancements when recalculating his term of imprisonment. Id. On December 20, 2018, we recommended that the petition be dismissed as an unauthorized successive petition because petitioner had made the same claim in an August 17, 2016 habeas petition. ECF No. 4; see Patterson v. Martinez, No. 16-cv-1215, ECF No.…