(HC) Brown v. North Kern State Prison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KENYON D. BROWN, No. 1:20-cv-01068-NONE-HBK (HC) Petitioner, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS TO DISMISS

v. PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

CORPUS AS DUPLICATIVE

NORTH KERN STATE PRISON, (Doc. Nos. 1, 11, 15, 17, 18) Respondent. 16 On August 3, 2020, petitioner Kenyon D. Brown, a state prisoner, filed the instant pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 seeking relief from his 2019 state court criminal conviction, even though he had filed the same habeas petition with this court months earlier. (Doc. Nos. 1; 11 at 2 (citing Brown v. North Kern State Prison Warden, No. 1:20-cv-01043-NONE-EPG (E.D. Cal. July 20, 2020).) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302, the instant federal habeas petition was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge. On September 17, 2020, the assigned magistrate judge found the instant habeas petition to be duplicative and recommended…