Lance Williams v. J. Gastelo

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 LANCE WILLIAMS, Case No. CV 19-9871-PA (KK) Petitioner, v. ORDER ACCEPTING FINDINGS

AND RECOMMENDATION OF

J. GASTELO, Warden, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE

JUDGE

Respondent. 15 16 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, the records on file, and the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge. The Court has engaged in de novo review of those portions of the Report to which Petitioner has objected. In his Objections, Petitioner argues the Report and Recommendation fails to address his argument that the Board of Parole Hearings (“BPH”) “is not following the law and their making arbitrary, capricious, illegal decisions” denying him parole in 2017 and 2019. Dkt. 14 at 1-2. The United States Supreme Court in Swarthout v. Cooke, 562 U.S. 216, 131 S. Ct. 859, 178 L. Ed. 2d 732 (2011), however, “was unequivocal in holding that if an inmate seeking parole…