Charles Edward Allen v. People of the State of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHARLES EDWARD ALLEN, Case No. 2:17-cv-09239-PSG-MAA Petitioner, ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND ep Sree bee W.L. MONTGOMERY, Warden, Respondent. 16 17 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Petition, the other 19 || records on file herein, and the Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) of the United 20 || States Magistrate Judge. Further, the Court has engaged in a de novo review of 21 || those portions of the R&R to which objections have been made. For the reasons 22 || below, Petitioner’s Objections are overruled. Petitioner objects under Ground One that his constitutional rights were 24 || violated because two state court judges denied Petitioner’s requests to have his 25 || defense investigator inspect the crime scene, based on the judges’ mistaken belief 26 || that they lacked authority to grant the requests (“Objections”). (Objs., ECF No. 59, at 9, 14-15.) But even assuming it were true that the judges improperly denied the…