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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Dameshlo A. Green, No. 2:21-cv-02414-KJM-KJN Petitioner, ORDER Vv. Daniel E. Cueva, Respondent. 16 The State of California deprived Dameshlo Green of his Sixth Amendment right to the 18 effective assistance of counsel at his criminal trial. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus is thus granted, as explained in this order. 20 I. BACKGROUND Tamisha Ridge died early in the morning in her bedroom from a shotgun wound. See generally People v. Green, No. C087436, 2020 WL 4496855, at *1 (Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 5, 2020) 23 (unpublished). Two other people were in the room when the gun went off. The first was Dameshlo Green. He and Ridge had been in “a long-term, on-again, off-again relationship.” He had come to her home unannounced with hopes of rekindling their relationship once more. /d. The other person in the room was Lee Williams, the man Green found that morning…