McDowell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANIEL FRAZER, Case No. 1:20-cv-01092-DAD-SAB-HC

Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION

RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF PETITION

v. FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

NEIL MCDOWELL, Respondent.

15 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. I. BACKGROUND On July 31, 2015, Petitioner was convicted after a jury trial in the Merced County Superior Court of two counts of first-degree robbery. ( CT1 1929, 1931). Petitioner was sentenced to an imprisonment term of twenty-five years to life. (9 CT 2297). On January 31, 2019, the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District affirmed the judgment. People v. Frazer, No. F073793, 2019 WL 396856 (Cal. Ct. App. Jan. 31, 2019), as modified on denial of reh’g (Feb. 25, 2019). On February 25, 2019, the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District denied Petitioner’s…