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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CORY MITCHELL, ) Case No. CV 20-7700-MWF (SP) ) Petitioner, ) ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER v. ) SUMMARILY DISMISSING ) PETITION WARDEN, ) ) Respondent. ) ) ) 17 I. INTRODUCTION On August 20, 2020, petitioner Cory Carnell Mitchell, a federal prisoner at the United States Penitentiary at Lompoc, California (“USP Lompoc”), filed a document in this Court that was docketed as a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (“Petition”). In fact, the Petition asks this Court to grant petitioner compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). As discussed further below, this Court was not petitioner’s sentencing court, and therefore it lacks authority to grant his Petition for compassionate release. Indeed, a substantially similar request for petitioner’s compassionate…