Pfeiffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SEAN L. JOYNER, No. 2:22-cv-01577-DAD-DB (HC) Petitioner, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISMISSING

v. HABEAS PETITION AS AN

UNAUTHORIZED SECOND OR

CHRISTIAN PFEIFFER, SUCCESSIVE PETITION Respondent. (Doc. No. 7) 16 Petitioner Sean L. Joyner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with an amended petition for writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On March 31, 2023, the assigned magistrate judge issued findings and recommendations recommending that the pending petition be dismissed, without prejudice, as an unauthorized second or successive petition. (Doc. No. 7 at 2–3.) Specifically, the magistrate judge pointed out that in the petition pending in this case, petitioner seeks to challenge the same state court conviction for second-degree…