Lizarraga

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 LAWRENCE WILLIAMS, Case No. 1:18-cv-00748-AWI-HBK (HC) 12 Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO

DENY PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

13 v. CORPUS AND TO DECLINE TO ISSUE A

CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY 1

14 JOE LIZARRAGA,

FOURTEEN-DAY OBJECTION PERIOD

15 Respondent. (Doc. No. 1) 16 17 18 19 20 Petitioner Lawrence Williams (“Williams” or “Petitioner”), a state prisoner proceeding 21 with counsel, has pending a Petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. No. 22 1, “Petition”). The Petition raises two grounds for relief: (1) the government had insufficient 23 evidence that Petitioner willfully failed to register his residence because Petitioner did not 24 understand his duty to register his residence due to his illiteracy, and (2) Petitioner had ineffective 25 assistance of counsel because his attorneys failed to investigate and raise the issue of Petitioner’s 26 illiteracy. (Id. at 16-19). For the reasons set forth below, the…