Daniel Mora Mendoza v. W.J. Sullivan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 10 DANIEL MORA MENDOZA, Case No. 8:19-cv-00622-MAA 12 Petitioner, MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER DENYING v. PETITION FOR WRIT OF

HABEAS CORPUS

W.J. SULLIVAN, Warden, 16 Respondent. 17 18 I. INTRODUCTION On April 2, 2019, the Court received and filed Petitioner Daniel Mora Mendoza’s (“Petitioner”) pro se Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”). (Pet., ECF No. 1.) The Petition challenges a 2017 judgment of conviction Petitioner sustained in the Orange County Superior Court. (Id. at 2.) On May 14, 2019, Respondent W.J. 25 1 Pinpoint citations of briefs, exhibits, and Lodged Documents (“LD”) in this Order 26 refer to the page numbers appearing in the ECF-generated headers. Pinpoint citations of the Reporter’s Transcript (“RT,” ECF Nos. 8-1 to 8-3) and Clerk’s Transcript (“CT,” ECF No. 8-4) refer to the transcripts’ own volume- and page- 28 Sullivan (“Respondent”) filed an Answer and an…