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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JACOB CALVIN JONES, No. 2:21-cv-01576-CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

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GONZALEZ, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a former county inmate currently in state custody proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently pending before the court is defendants’ motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. ECF No. 16. Plaintiff has filed an opposition, ECF No. 18, and defendants have filed a reply, 19. For the reasons explained in further detail below, the undersigned recommends granting defendants’ motion to dismiss based on plaintiff’s failure to exhaust his administrative remedies prior to filing suit. I. Factual and Procedural History This case is proceeding on Fourteenth Amendment excessive force claims against defendants Gonzales1, Diaz, Edwards, Vangerwen, Brown, and…