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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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6 TROY C. SANDERS, Case No. 20-cv-06055-JST 7 Petitioner, 8 ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS; 9 DENYING CERTIFICATE OF

WARDEN DANNY SAMUEL, APPEALABILITY

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12 13 Petitioner, a California state prisoner currently housed at California Men’s Colony,1 has 14 filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging the validity of 15 his state court conviction. ECF No. 1. Respondent has filed an answer to the petition. ECF Nos. 16 18-19 (“Answer”). Petitioner has not filed a traverse, and the deadline to do has passed. For the 17 reasons set forth below, the petition is DENIED. 18 I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY 19 In 2015, a Contra Costa County jury convicted Petitioner of one count of assault with a 20 firearm (Cal. Penal Code § 245(a)(2)) and one count of discharging a firearm at an occupied motor 21 vehicle (Cal. Penal Code § 246), both arising out of a May 8, 2013 incident (counts ten and 22 …