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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JESSE PRITCHETT, No. 1:12-cv-1333-NONE-SKO (HC) Petitioner, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS TO GRANT

v. PETITIONER’S MOTION TO REOPEN AND

TO ORDER PARTIES TO FILE

AUDREY KING, Executive Director, SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING ADDRESSING

THE REMAINING CLAIM

Respondent. (Doc. Nos. 24, 26) 16 Petitioner Jesse Pritchett was civilly committed pursuant to California’s Sexual Violent Predator Act (“SVPA”) and is proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner sought to challenge the prosecution’s effort to commit him as a “sexually violent predator” under the SVPA,1 arguing that such effort was in violation of his plea agreement in another criminal prosecution for sexual battery. (Doc. No. 22 at 2.) Initially, the court abstained from exercising federal jurisdiction over the instant habeas petition following Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 40-45 (1971) because the…