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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONNIE M. HUNTER, No. 1:19-cv-01678-NONE-SAB-HC Petitioner,

ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

v. RECOMMENDATION, DENYING

PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

BRANDON PRICE, as Executive Director, CORPUS, DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT

TO ASSIGN DISTRICT JUDGE AND TO

Respondent. CLOSE CASE, AND DECLINING TO ISSUE

CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

16 (Doc. No. 14) 17 18 Petitioner Ronnie M. Hunter, currently a patient at the Coalinga State Hospital, brought this petition for writ of habeas corpus pro se pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his civil confinement after he was found to be a sexually violent predator under California’s Sexually Violent Predator Act, California Welfare & Institutions Code § 6600 (“SVPA”) following a civil trial in the Alameda County Superior Court. (Doc. Nos. 1; 14 at 4.) On January 28, 2020, respondent filed an answer to the petition. (Doc. No. 9 at 9.) Petitioner filed a traverse on February 28, 2020. …