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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DEXTER LAWRENCE GRIFFIN, No. 1:22-cv-00015-JLT SAB (HC) Petitioner, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS, DISMISSING

v. PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

CORPUS, DENYING PETITIONER’S

BRANDON PRICE, MOTIONS, DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT

TO CLOSE CASE, AND DECLINING TO

Respondent. ISSUE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (Docs. 4, 5, 8) 17 Dexter Lawrence Griffin, who is civilly committed to Coalinga State Hospital, is proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. This matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On February 2, 2022, the magistrate judge determined the petition for writ of habeas corpus duplicated that filed in Case No. 1: :21-cv-01507-SAB, as in both actions he “challenge[s] his indefinite commitment and an August 15, 2008 Sacramento County…