(HC)Almeda

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL ALAMEDA, No. 2:20-cv-01101 JAM GGH Petitioner, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS M. ATCHLEY, Respondent. 16 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. § 626(b)(1) and Local Rule 302(c). Petitioner was one of two defendants charged with a gangland style execution and convicted of same. The victim was chosen as a result of an argument he had with the two defendants after a playground “stare-down”, a seeming capital offense in some quarters. Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The issues here revolve around the admission of conversations of a jailhouse informant (Rhodes) with petitioner’s co-defendant (Villa); Rhodes was in jail on charges unrelated to defendants’ charges. …