Sherman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HEATHER G. ANDERSON, Case No. 2:21-cv-00120-KJM-JDP (HC) Petitioner, FINDING THAT THE PETITION DOES NOT

STATE A COGNIZABLE FEDERAL CLAIM

v. AND RECOMMENDING THAT IT BE

DISMISSED WITHOUT LEAVE TO AMEND

STEWARD SHERMAN, ECF No. 8 Respondent. 16 Heather G. Anderson, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Her initial petition argued only that under Proposition 57, a California measure enacted by voters in 2016, her state convictions should be reclassified as “non-violent” and she should be eligible for resentencing. ECF No. 1 at 4-5. I screened that petition and advised her that the claim was non-cognizable because it implicated only questions of state law. See Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 68 (1991) (“In conducting habeas review, a federal court is limited to deciding whether a conviction violated the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United…