(HC) Weece v.Hill

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN WEECE, Case No. 1:23-cv-00124-JLT-EPG-HC

Petitioner, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION

RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF PETITION

v. FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND

DENIAL OF PETITIONER’S MOTION FOR

JAMES HILL, RECONSIDERATION

Respondent. (ECF No. 18)

ORDER DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT

TO SUBSTITUTE JAMES HILL AS

RESPONDENT

18 Petitioner John Weece is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons discussed herein, the undersigned recommends denial of the petition for writ of habeas corpus. I. BACKGROUND Petitioner was convicted by a jury in the Tulare County Superior Court of three counts of sex with a child ten years or younger, nine counts of oral copulation/penetration with a child under ten, thirty-two counts of forcible lewd…