Alphonso Williams v. Stu Sherman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ALPHONSO WILLIAMS, Case No. CV 19-9621 JFW (PVC) Petitioner,

ORDER ACCEPTING FINDINGS,

v. CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS OF UNITED

STU SHERMAN, Warden, STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Respondent. 16 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition, Respondent’s motion to dismiss, all of the records and files herein, the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation, and Petitioner’s objections. After having made a de novo determination of the portions of the Report and Recommendation to which the objections were directed, the Court concurs with and accepts the findings and conclusions of the Magistrate Judge. 23 In his objections, Petitioner asserts that the Magistrate Judge applied conflicting standards for passing through the actual innocence gateway articulated in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), and thus disregarded the weight of “newly discovered” evidence that would prove Petitioner’s…