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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSEPH D. SPILLERS, No. 2:19-cv-567-TLN-EFB P Petitioner, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS RICK HILL, Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, brings an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner attacks the sufficiency of evidence underlying a car-jacking conviction (Penal Code § 215) obtained against him in 2018 and in the Sacramento County Superior Court. Respondent has filed an answer (ECF No. 21) and petitioner has filed a traverse (ECF No. 23). For the reasons stated hereafter, the petition should be denied. FACTUAL BACKGROUND The court has reviewed the state appellate court’s summation of the relevant facts. Having determined that it is consistent with the record, it is reproduced here: While the victim and defendant were in a relationship in 2015 and 2016, defendant beat her many times and threatened to…